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High Road to Culture in Flanders and the Netherlands
The exhibition The Man, the Dragon and the Death, which focuses on Saint George, will be on display from the autumn of 2015 in MAC’s Museum of Contemporary Art at the Grand Hornu site in Boussu, Wallonia. The exhibition is part of the prog...
Confronted with challenging societal, historical and ethical questions, many museums are trying to redefine their role. MSK Director Manfred Sellink makes some proposals.
Although the Dutch have been ice skating since the 13th century, it was not until the 16th century that ice skaters would regularly appear in paintings, courtesy of the Flemish Master Pieter Bruegel the Elder and... a climatic phenomenon.
The author, who discovered in 2010 a new Bruegel in Spain, now in Prado Museum, Madrid, turns the spotlight on the varied and abundant seam of current Bruegel research. There are obviously some fascinating and stimulating recent contributi...
The ART Curator Prize for the best exhibition of 2018 in Austria goes to the curators of the world's first major monographic exhibition on Pieter Bruegel the Elder in the Kunsthistorisches Museum of Vienna.
Some artists from the past are familiar figures to those in the know and those with expertise in the field, but are entirely unknown to the general public. Johannes Stradanus – the Latinised version of Jan van der Straet, known in Italy as ...
Pieter Bruegel the Elder may be seen as one of the few artists who for centuries have played a role in determining the perception and image of Flanders. Whether historically accurate or not, many people – and certainly not only foreigners –...
At the end of 2010 the Groeninge Museum in Bruges will outline the artistic exchanges between the Netherlands and Central Europe from about 1420 to 1530. The exhibition will start with the generation that included Van Eyck, Campin and Rogie...
Gossart was certainly not the first artist from the Low Countries to travel to Italy, but he was most certainly the first to draw copies of classical statues and architecture. After his return he quickly became one of the most sought-after ...
However tempting (and correct) it may be to position Hieronymus Bosch primarily as a trendsetter and instigator of artistic developments in the sixteenth century, and to name Bruegel in the same breath as his artistic successor, one should...
Bruegel Year will start already in the autumn and winter of 2018/19, in the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna. For the first time ever, a large monographic review of the master’s paintings will go on show there, together with a wide selec...
Jeroen Olyslaegers unravels the mystery of the most significant Renaissance painter of both Flanders and the Netherlands.
