Flemish art - Finestre sull'Arte

Bruges, old St. John's Hospital reopens with its collection of Memling masterpieces

After a long period of renovation, the former St. John's Hospital in Bruges, now Museum Sint-Janshospitaal, has reopened. The beating heart of the museum is the collection of works by Hans Memling (Seligenstadt, 1430 - Bruges, 1494), a Flemish painte...
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Metropolitan Museum reopens 45 galleries of European Painting, 1300s to 1800s, after five years

After five years, the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York has reopened to the public the galleries devoted to European painting from the fourteenth to the nineteenth centuries. The forty-five galleries were renovated following a major infrastructu...
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How Rome was seen by Flemish artists of the 1500s and 1600s: an exhibition of paintings and artifacts

How was Rome viewed by the Flemish artists who descended on Italy between the 16th and 17th centuries with the specific intention of observing, studying, and modeling our country and its historical and natural landscape? This is the question at the h...
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Museum of Fine Arts Ghent hosts monograph on Theodoor Rombouts, painter of Flemish Caravaggism

From January 21 to April 23, 2023, the Museum of Fine Arts Ghent presents a monographic exhibition devoted to Theodoor Rombouts (Antwerp, 1597 - 1637), considered an exponent of Flemish Caravaggism. Among the leading figures in Antwerp's artistic mil...
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Flemings under the Tree. Winter Tales from Bacchus to Jesus at the Antonello Colonna Resort.

Winter Tales. Stories of Art from Bacchus to Jesus is the title from the exhibition that the Caretto & Occhinegro Gallery has set up within the spaces of the Antonello Colonna Resort in Labico: a dry but rich exhibition of important works, expert...
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Bruges, Hugo van der Goes and the Flemish primitives brought together in a major exhibition around a masterpiece

From Oct. 28, 2022 to Feb. 5, 2023, the former Hospital of St. John in Bruges, now the Memling Museum, will host the exhibition Face to Face with Death, dedicated to the Flemish artist Hugo van der Goes (Ghent, c. 1440 - Auderghem, 1482), who along w...
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Gerard David's Our Lady of the Loaf: a mother feeding her child.

One does not necessarily have to think of childish romanticisms when, in the first room of the Flemish in the Palazzo Bianco in Genoa, one reads the caption accompanying Gerard David's splendid panel on the right wall and notices that someone chose t...
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The manuscript of the Historiae Alexandri Magni: the dream of the court of Burgundy

The courtly literature that flourished toward the end of the Middle Ages helped to fuel the legend of Alexander the Great (Pella 356 B.C.E. - Babylon, 323 B.C.E.), whose exploits, read through the filter of literary narratives, took on almost fabulou...
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