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CODART eZine: Curator's collection Groeninge Museum

Till-Holger Borchert (Chief curator at the Groeninge Museum, Bruges) presents an overview of the collection in the anniversary issue of CODART's eZine.

'The Fine Arts Museum of Bruges, better known as the Groeningemuseum, is internationally renowned for its significant holdings of early Netherlandish painting, which has formed the core of the museum's most successful exhibitions in recent decades. This part of the collection consists of a number of masterpieces by Jan van Eyck, Hans Memling, Hugo van der Goes and Gerard David, as well as works by the minor masters active in Bruges in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, including the Masters of the Lucia- and Ursula Legend, Ambrosius Benson, Lancelot Blondeel and Pieter Pourbus the Elder. In short, the Groeningemuseum houses a reference collection of unique depth and quality: a collection of importance to the study and understanding of artistic production in the Low Countries - Bruges in particular - during the transition from the late Middle Ages to early-modern times.'

Link to the CODART eZine

(News item 17 October 2013)