Flemish Primitives - An online museum

Call for applications Postdoctoral research fellowship

Pascal Ennaert — Tue, 12 Jan 2021 13:14:20 +0000

Deadline 31 March 2021

New scientific research into Jan van Eyck's 'Madonna with Canon Joris van der Paele'

Pascal Ennaert — Thu, 07 Jan 2021 22:15:56 +0000

From 4 to 18 January 2021, the University of Antwerp (Research groups AXES &

Facing van Eyck

Pascal Ennaert — Tue, 08 Dec 2020 22:48:34 +0000

BOZAR draws the Van Eyck year of 2020 to a close with an interactive digital exhibition that allows you to explore the mastery of the painter in the finest detail.

Painting by Memling donated to Musea Brugge

Pascal Ennaert — Wed, 23 Sep 2020 08:07:38 +0000

The portrait of Francisco de Rojas, painted by Hans Memling in the 15th century, is returning to the city of Bruges, where it was painted.

New version 'Closer to Van Eyck'

Matthias Depoorter — Thu, 27 Aug 2020 11:50:10 +0000

The Getty and the Royal Institute for Cultural Heritage (KIK-IRPA, Brussels, Belgium), in collaboration with the Gieskes Strijbis Fund in Amsterdam, are launching a new version of the website ‘C

Musea Brugge has acquired a late 15th century drawing

Pascal Ennaert — Fri, 21 Aug 2020 13:30:11 +0000

Musea Brugge has acquired an important late 15th century drawing depicting the arms of alliance of the houses of Austria and of Burgundy on an escutcheon.

Virtual 360° tour 'Van Eyck. An optical revolution'

Matthias Depoorter — Thu, 02 Jul 2020 13:54:02 +0000

From February 1st until March 12th 2020, the MSK hosted the largest Jan van Eyck exhibition ever.

4th edition Musea Brugge Research School

Pascal Ennaert — Thu, 30 Apr 2020 15:19:11 +0000

28-30 November 2020 & 20-22 February 2021
Deadline for applications: 12 June 2020

Conference ‘Van Eyck. An Optical Revolution.'

Matthias Depoorter — Mon, 27 Jan 2020 11:15:46 +0000

Call for applications Summer Course for the Study of the Arts in Flanders: The Age of Van Eyck in Context

Matthias Depoorter — Fri, 08 Nov 2019 09:42:05 +0000

Annually, the Summer Course brings a select group of 18 highly qualified young researchers to Flanders.

Call for papers: Symposium XXII for the Study of Underdrawing and Technology in Painting (Bruges, 9-11 September 2020)

Pascal Ennaert — Mon, 16 Sep 2019 14:48:17 +0000

In preparation for the Symposium XXII for the Study of Underdrawing and Technology in Painting to be held in Bruges, 9-11 September 2020, the organizers have launched a call for papers.

New Flemish Primitive for Musea Brugge

Pascal Ennaert — Thu, 20 Jun 2019 08:51:26 +0000

The green light has been given in Bruges for the purchase of a rare panel painting by a follower of Jan van Eyck.

Oral History and the Afterlives of Devotional Objects in the Abbey of Saint Godelieve (Bruges) by Dr. Tianna Uchacz (Columbia University)

Pascal Ennaert — Sun, 02 Jun 2019 20:52:46 +0000

From 1623 to 2013, the Benedictine Sisters of Saint Godelieve Abbey prayed and worked among an array of fine objects integral to daily life and devotion.

Live restoration Flemish masterpiece by Dieric Bouts in Saint Peter’s Church in Leuven

Pascal Ennaert — Tue, 07 May 2019 09:04:26 +0000

Until the end of July 2019, ‘The Martyrdom of Saint Erasmus’ by the Leuven painter Dieric Bo

Musea Brugge and University of Antwerp organise Technart in Bruges

Pascal Ennaert — Mon, 06 May 2019 09:54:42 +0000

The University of Antwerp (AXES group) and Musea Brugge (Municip

Call for Papers: 6th Annual Study Day Medieval Sculpture: Borman and Sons in Context (Leuven, 27-29 November 2019)

Pascal Ennaert — Mon, 18 Mar 2019 13:16:25 +0000

In September 2019 10 years of interdisciplinary research are brought together in the first ever monographical exhibition and new publication on the Borman family of Brussels sculptors, active from

Research Virgin and Child from the Melun Diptych in J. Paul Getty Museum

Pascal Ennaert — Mon, 11 Feb 2019 09:55:32 +0000

One of the most celebrated works of the exhibition The Renaissance Nude at the J.

Exhibition ‘Van Eyck. An Optical Revolution’ in 2020 in the Museum of Fine Arts Ghent (MSK)

Pascal Ennaert — Mon, 04 Feb 2019 11:01:59 +0000

In 2020 the Museum of Fine Arts Ghent (MSK) will be staging the exhibition 'Van Eyck. An Optical Revolution'.

Technart 2019

Pascal Ennaert — Thu, 24 Jan 2019 15:45:33 +0000

The University of Antwerp (AXES group) and Musea Brugge (Municipal Museums of Bruges) are organizing the 2019 edition of Technart in Bruges from 7 until 10 May 2019.

Musea Brugge acquires panel by Master of the Legend of Saint Ursula

Pascal Ennaert — Thu, 20 Dec 2018 09:53:00 +0000

Musea Brugge has acquired an important panel from the 15th Century Bruges

New publication ‘The Art of Law’ on artistic representations and iconography of law and justice

Pascal Ennaert — Fri, 16 Nov 2018 10:13:35 +0000

From 16 through 18 January 2017, the conference 'The Art of Law: Artistic Representations and Iconography of Law & Justice in

City of Bruges acquires manuscript ‘La Pénitence d’Adam’ by Colard Mansion

Pascal Ennaert — Mon, 12 Nov 2018 15:22:10 +0000

The city of Bruges has acquired the manuscript 'La Pénitance d'Adam' of Colard Mansion for the collection.

International Conference 'Many Antwerp Hands' - Collaborations in Netherlandish Art 1400-1750

Pascal Ennaert — Tue, 16 Oct 2018 11:52:02 +0000

On November 5-6, 2018, the Rubenianum will host an international conference on artistic collaboration in the early modern Low Countries.

Two masterpieces reunited at The Frick Collection (New York)

Pascal Ennaert — Mon, 08 Oct 2018 13:58:08 +0000

For the first time in twenty-four years and only the second time in their history, two masterpieces of early Netherlandish painting commissioned by the Carthusian monk Jan Vos will be reunited in a

Discover the new website of research and documentation centre Illuminare

Pascal Ennaert — Thu, 20 Sep 2018 08:40:39 +0000

The new website of Illuminare – Centre for the Study of Medieval Art (KU Leuven) offers quick and easy access to essential information about

In memoriam Craig Stephen Harbison

Pascal Ennaert — Fri, 07 Sep 2018 09:04:31 +0000

Craig Stephen Harbison (born 1944, Baltimore), a prominent scholar of Northern Renaissance art, passed away earlier this year.

Restorers of the KIK-IRPA uncover Van Eyck’s original Lamb

Pascal Ennaert — Thu, 12 Jul 2018 14:13:00 +0000

After intensive research the restoration team of the Royal Institute for Cultural Heritage (KIK-IRPA, Brussels) has removed the old overpaint that masked the main figure of the Ghent Altarpie

Jan van Eyck's oeuvre online

Matthias Depoorter — Thu, 18 Jan 2018 09:57:24 +0000

The Royal Institute for Cultural Heritage in Brussels (KIK) and Musea Brugge/kenniscentrum vzw have published high-quality image material of 20 works by Jan van Eyck from 11 museums on the exist

Lecture by Stephan Kemperdick

Matthias Depoorter — Wed, 17 Jan 2018 10:45:41 +0000

On January 25, Stephan Kemperdick (Curator of Early Netherlandish and German Paintings at the Gemäldegalerie, Staatliche Museen, Berlin) will give a lecture at Musea Brugge.

Symposium Vergeten Meesters. Pieter Pourbus en de Brugse schilderkunst van 1525 tot 1625

Matthias Depoorter — Tue, 21 Nov 2017 13:53:29 +0000

The exhibition Pieter Pourbus and the forgotten masters (Groeningemuseum, Bruges, 12.10.2017 - 21.01.2018) focuses on painting in Bruges during the 16th century.

Update website Closer to Van Eyck

Matthias Depoorter — Fri, 03 Nov 2017 10:27:11 +0000

Since the launch of the website Closer to Van Eyck in 2012, devoted to the Ghent Altarpiece by the Brothers Van Eyck, it had yet to receive major updates.

New publication Der Genter Altar/The Ghent Altarpiece

Matthias Depoorter — Fri, 27 Oct 2017 11:40:40 +0000

The Ghent Altarpiece, produced by the Van Eyck brothers and completed in 1432, is the magnum opus of painting from the Burgundian Netherlands.

21 Paintings from the KMSKA going to the Mauritshuis in The Hague

Pascal Ennaert — Thu, 31 Aug 2017 09:37:05 +0000

The Royal Museum of Fine Arts in Antwerp (KMSKA) is closed for renovations until 2019.

NEMO’s 25th Annual Conference

Matthias Depoorter — Fri, 04 Aug 2017 13:13:03 +0000

NEMO's 25th Annual Conference: ‘Open Heart Surgery - The Value of Museum Collections' (9-12 November 2017/ Ghent, Belgium)

Friedländer 3.0

Matthias Depoorter — Fri, 16 Jun 2017 13:54:12 +0000

Last Thursday at the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam, on the occasion of the 150th birthday of Max J.

In memoriam Roger Van Schoute

Matthias Depoorter — Tue, 23 May 2017 14:15:16 +0000

Roger Van Schoute passed away on 10 May 2017. Van Schoute was born in 1930. He held a doctorate in Art History and was Emeritus Professor at the Catholic University in Leuven.

Charlotte Wytema wins the Duparc Prize

Matthias Depoorter — Thu, 13 Apr 2017 07:45:30 +0000

Musea Brugge wishes to congratulate Charlotte Wytema from the Netherlands.

New Online Publication on Hans Memling

Matthias Depoorter — Tue, 21 Mar 2017 09:37:42 +0000

The restoration of Hans Memling's Christ with singing and music-making Angels from the collection of the Royal Museum of Fine Arts in Antwerp (KMSKA) was recently completed.

Albrecht Bouts Exhibition

Matthias Depoorter — Thu, 02 Mar 2017 12:50:03 +0000

Beginning on 9 March, the exhibition Blut und Tränen: Albrecht Bouts und das Antlitz der Passion (Blood and Tears: Albrecht Bouts and the Image of the Passion) is to be viewed in t

Altarpiece by Gerard David Reassembled

Matthias Depoorter — Fri, 24 Feb 2017 11:22:30 +0000

Gerard David painted some of the most compelling and technically exquisite works

Memling symposium

Matthias Depoorter — Fri, 10 Feb 2017 15:11:54 +0000

Book Honouring Christian Heck

Matthias Depoorter — Fri, 10 Feb 2017 13:24:52 +0000

La pensée du regard. Études d'histoire de l'art du Moyen Âge offertes à Christian Heck (Brepols) is a book in honour of Professor Christian Heck.

Conference Flandes by Substitution. Copies of Flemish Masters in the Hispanic World (1500-1700)

Matthias Depoorter — Wed, 01 Feb 2017 12:51:35 +0000

On 9 and 10 February 2017 an international conference will be held on the copies of paintings of Flemish masters from the sixteenth and the seventeenth centuries related to the Hispanic world.

Groeninge Museum acquires Mass of Saint Gregory

Matthias Depoorter — Fri, 20 Jan 2017 09:29:10 +0000

Collection presentation: Memling in context

Matthias Depoorter — Thu, 19 Jan 2017 09:16:56 +0000

The collection of Saint.

Conference: The Art of Law

Matthias Depoorter — Fri, 02 Dec 2016 13:11:07 +0000

Conference The Art of Law: Artistic Representations and Iconography of Law & Justice in Context from the Middle Ages to the First World War

The restored exterior panels of the Ghent Altarpiece presented

Matthias Depoorter — Fri, 21 Oct 2016 07:54:09 +0000

Flemish art institutions and universities launched the third edition of the international Summer Course on Flemish art

Matthias Depoorter — Fri, 07 Oct 2016 14:37:51 +0000

Several Flemish research centres, universities and art museums collaboratively organise the third edition of the Summer Course for the Study of the Arts in Flanders in the summer of 2017.

Workshop Puzzling art: Painting and cultural identity in sixteenth-century Bruges

Matthias Depoorter — Fri, 17 Jun 2016 11:39:48 +0000

In the Fall of 2017, the Groeninge Museum is organising the exhibition Pieter Pourbus and the Claeissens Family.

Memling’s Crabbe Triptych reunited

Matthias Depoorter — Thu, 16 Jun 2016 11:58:41 +0000

The Morgan Library & Museum reunites for the first time for an American audience

In memoriam Paul Van Grembergen

Matthias Depoorter — Mon, 06 Jun 2016 12:26:21 +0000

In memoriam

The Art of Law: exhibitions and conferences

Matthias Depoorter — Fri, 27 May 2016 08:02:44 +0000

From 28 October, 2016 through 5 February, 2017, the Groeninge Museum in Bruges will host the exhibition The Art of Law. Three Centuries of Justice depicted.

New masterpiece for Musea Brugge

Matthias Depoorter — Wed, 04 May 2016 14:51:08 +0000

Exhibition on the flora on the Ghent Altarpiece

Matthias Depoorter — Fri, 22 Apr 2016 09:16:35 +0000

The focus of the exhibition A miraculous garden at the Caermersklooster is on the flora on the

Kunstschrift issue dedicated to Memling

Matthias Depoorter — Thu, 21 Apr 2016 11:49:11 +0000

The latest issue of the Dutch Kunstschrift, the bi-monthly journal for art and art history, is dedicated almost fully to

Musea Brugge Research School

Matthias Depoorter — Thu, 14 Apr 2016 12:21:01 +0000

The Flemish research centre for the arts in the Burgundian Nethe

Book: Bosch in detail

Matthias Depoorter — Fri, 04 Mar 2016 15:59:10 +0000

Till-Holger Borchert (Director, Musea Brugge) has written the book Bosch in detail, the third book in the In detail series by Ludion.

Chair Francqui attributed to Dominique Vanwijnsberghe

Matthias Depoorter — Wed, 10 Feb 2016 11:07:23 +0000

The faculty of Letters and Philosophy of the University of Namur (Université de Namur) attributed the Chair Francqui to Dominique Vanwijnsberghe.

Exhibition ‘A New Look at a Van Eyck Masterpiece’

Matthias Depoorter — Thu, 28 Jan 2016 13:39:18 +0000

This focus exhibition presents the findings of a recent study of the Crucifixion and Last Judgment paintings (ca. 1440-41) by Jan van Eyck and his workshop.

Saint Barbara by Van Eyck in New York

Matthias Depoorter — Wed, 27 Jan 2016 12:38:32 +0000

The exhibition ‘Unfinished: Thoughts left visible' addresses a subject critical to artistic practice: the question of when a work of art is finished.

New publication: Early Netherlandish Painting in Budapest

Matthias Depoorter — Fri, 27 Nov 2015 10:42:52 +0000

Exhibition 'The Cult of St George'

Matthias Depoorter — Tue, 10 Nov 2015 14:31:40 +0000

'The Cult of St George' shows a selection of works (including paintings, sculptures, drawings and illuminated manuscripts) representing the saint in different forms.

Exhibition 'Mythical Primitives'

Matthias Depoorter — Tue, 10 Nov 2015 12:53:08 +0000

The exhibition 'Mythical Primitives: the Gothic revival in the 19th century' consists of 6 paintings from the Groeninge Museum collection, supplemented by 9 loans

Exhibition 'Mystical Music' at Caermersklooster

Matthias Depoorter — Thu, 10 Sep 2015 13:40:48 +0000

The exhibition ‘Mystical Music' at the Caermersklooster in Ghent highlights the music in the ‘Ghent Altarpiece' by the brothers Van Eyck.

Conference Illuminare: call for papers

Matthias Depoorter — Tue, 25 Aug 2015 09:03:50 +0000

In 2010, Illuminare - Centre for the Study of Medieval Art (KU Leuven) acquired the archive of the eminent Belgian art historian professor Jan Karel Steppe (1918-2009).

Footage of the first edition of the Summer Course

Matthias Depoorter — Tue, 18 Aug 2015 08:46:54 +0000

Exhibition 'Petrus Alamire. Polyphony in the picture'

Matthias Depoorter — Fri, 14 Aug 2015 10:48:04 +0000

Loan from the Museum of Fine Arts in Ghent to the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna

Matthias Depoorter — Wed, 15 Jul 2015 07:52:38 +0000

New Chief Curator for the Hospitaalmuseum of Bruges

Matthias Depoorter — Thu, 18 Jun 2015 14:27:23 +0000

Ruud Priem (1969, Netherlands) is the new Chief Curator of the Hospitaalmuseum in Bruges. The City of Bruges selected Priem to lead the Hospitaalmuseum as of 1 September.

E-book Frames and Supports

Matthias Depoorter — Thu, 16 Apr 2015 13:32:07 +0000

The KIK-IRPA publishes the free e-book 'Frames and Supports in 15th and 16th-century Southern Netherlandish Painting' by Hélène Verougstraete.

City app Xplore BRUGES

Matthias Depoorter — Tue, 14 Apr 2015 07:20:35 +0000

Xplore BRUGES is a city app developed for smartphones and tablets and guides the visitor along various heritage routes within the city centre of Bruges.

Artistic Innovations and Cultural Zones

Matthias Depoorter — Wed, 08 Apr 2015 08:56:16 +0000

The series 'Spectrum Slovakia' features scientific studies, expert monographs, popular scientific publications and a review of scientific conferences on a wide range of topics.

Prof. dr. em. Bert Cardon is deceased

Matthias Depoorter — Fri, 27 Mar 2015 09:28:06 +0000

It is with great sadness we share with you the news that prof. dr. em.

The KMSKA loans Rogier van der Weyden’s The seven sacraments to the Prado

Pascal Ennaert — Fri, 06 Mar 2015 09:12:25 +0000

From March 24 through June 28 the Museo del Prado in Madrid devotes an exhibition to

Conference Considering Women in the Early Modern Low Countries

Pascal Ennaert — Fri, 06 Mar 2015 08:48:47 +0000

The international conference Considering Women in the Early Modern Low Countries (24-25 April 2015) brings together twenty-six eminent scholars of history, art history, and literature

Restoration Bosch paintings

Matthias Depoorter — Fri, 06 Feb 2015 13:49:55 +0000

In 2016, it will be 500 years since Jheronimus Bosch (ca. 1450-1516) died.

The Printroom of the Groeninge Museum acquires the Van Hoorebeke collection

Matthias Depoorter — Thu, 29 Jan 2015 10:01:07 +0000

In December 2014, the municipal council of Bruges approved the acquisition of the graphic collection of Bruges print dealer Guy van Hoorebeke.

Van Eyck Research in Open Access

Matthias Depoorter — Thu, 08 Jan 2015 16:03:56 +0000

The VERONA project (Van Eyck Research in OpeN Access), led by the Royal Institute for Cultural Heritage (KIK/IRPA), aims to

The Bowet Hours: a Bruges Masterpiece

Matthias Depoorter — Thu, 08 Jan 2015 10:23:09 +0000

Till-Holger Borchert and Hubert De Witte appointed as Co-Directors of Musea Brugge

Matthias Depoorter — Tue, 06 Jan 2015 07:52:52 +0000

Hubert De Witte (*1955 in Sinaai), the former Adjunct-Director alongside Manfred Sellink, is the new Business

OCMW Brussels Loan in Sint-Janshospitaal

Matthias Depoorter — Fri, 05 Dec 2014 15:57:17 +0000

Lecture 'Alabaster sculpture in the Burgundian and Habsburg Netherlands'

Matthias Depoorter — Wed, 26 Nov 2014 10:22:51 +0000

The Flemish Research Centre for the Arts in the Burgundian Netherla

Lecture ‘Sculpture design in Rogier van der Weyden's workshop'

Matthias Depoorter — Fri, 07 Nov 2014 13:38:51 +0000

Exhibition 'From tree trunk to altarpiece'

Matthias Depoorter — Thu, 06 Nov 2014 08:31:16 +0000

The Ghent altarpiece was painted by the

Contemporary art refers to the Ghent Altarpiece

Matthias Depoorter — Fri, 24 Oct 2014 13:54:49 +0000

Extended deadline for applications to the Summer Course

Matthias Depoorter — Fri, 17 Oct 2014 13:17:19 +0000

The deadline for applications to the Summer Course for the study of the Arts in Flanders has been extended through November 17, 2014.

Sellink new director KMSKA

Matthias Depoorter — Fri, 17 Oct 2014 09:55:11 +0000

On 16 October, Minister of Culture Sven Gatz announced that Manfred Sellink will succeed Paul Huvenne as the new General Director and Head Curator of the Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp (KMSKA).

Online publication highlights Museum of the Basilica of the Holy Blood

Matthias Depoorter — Fri, 10 Oct 2014 13:55:13 +0000

In the 12th Century, Count Diederick van de Elzas (1128-1168) had a double chapel erected in the Burg in Bruges.

Lectures by The Flemish Research Centre for the Arts in the Burgundian Netherlands

Matthias Depoorter — Wed, 24 Sep 2014 09:42:08 +0000

The Flemish Research Centre for the Arts in the Burgundian Netherlands organizes, as it did in the past, a series of lectures.

Exhibition 'The Ghent Altarpiece by the Van Eyck brothers in Berlin. 1820-1920'

Matthias Depoorter — Thu, 11 Sep 2014 09:56:52 +0000

The Ghent Altarpiece, painted by the

Exhibition 'Jan van Eyck, Rogier van der Weyden and the Discovery of the World'

Matthias Depoorter — Fri, 05 Sep 2014 08:56:49 +0000

In the 15th Century, humanity discovered the world, and itself.

Programme and 4 grants Summer Course

Matthias Depoorter — Tue, 02 Sep 2014 13:16:45 +0000

Several Flemish research centres, universities and art museums have collaborated in organizing the first Summer Course for the Study of the Arts in Flanders in 2015.

Summer Course: participation fee and grants

Matthias Depoorter — Wed, 20 Aug 2014 08:29:40 +0000

The Summer course for the study of the arts in Flanders is a joint initiative of the Flemish Art Collection, the Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp, the Groeninge Museum Bruges, the

Exhibition 'Memling. Rinascimento Fiammingo'

Matthias Depoorter — Thu, 14 Aug 2014 09:48:43 +0000

The exhibition Memling.

Carved Flemish Altarpieces in Spain

Matthias Depoorter — Thu, 03 Jul 2014 14:41:29 +0000

‘Part of this absolutely exceptional production of altarpieces, renowned not only for its quantity, but also for its quality, was manufactured in series and mainly came from the two outstanding art

Intermediary results restoration Ghent Altarpiece

Matthias Depoorter — Thu, 26 Jun 2014 08:03:57 +0000

First edition of the Summer Course

Matthias Depoorter — Fri, 06 Jun 2014 09:03:26 +0000

The Groeninge Museum in Bruges and the Flemish Research Centre for the arts in the Burgundian Netherlands coordinate the first edition of the Summer Course

Ghent Altarpiece International Study Day

Matthias Depoorter — Wed, 30 Apr 2014 09:13:31 +0000

The Royal Institute for Cultural Heritage (KIK/IRPA) and the University of Ghent (UGent) are honoured to announce the Ghent Altarpiece International Study Day that will take place

Musea Brugge Research School

Matthias Depoorter — Fri, 18 Apr 2014 09:49:56 +0000

The Flemish Research Centre for the Arts in the Burgundian

Elisabeth Dhanens is Deceased

Matthias Depoorter — Thu, 20 Mar 2014 14:30:25 +0000

Art Historian Dr. Elisabeth Dhanens passed away on 11 March 2014 at the age of ninety-eight. Dhanens was a doctor in the history of Art.

Apostle Altarpiece Saint Dimpna Church Geel placed on the Topstukkenlijst

Matthias Depoorter — Fri, 28 Feb 2014 11:51:25 +0000

The Minister of Culture for Flanders, Joke Schauvliege, has placed the Saint Dimpna Church's Apostle Altarpiece in Geel on the Topstukkenlijst (List of Masterpiece

Lecture: 'Power and Performance: the Bruges Mantelpiece to Charles V'

Matthias Depoorter — Fri, 28 Feb 2014 10:57:03 +0000

Ethan Matt Kavaler (Acting Chair and Professor Graduate Department of the History of Art University of Toronto (Canada)) was invited by the Flemish Research Centre for the Arts in the

Fouquet: Exceptional Loan from the KMSKA to the Prado in Madrid

Matthias Depoorter — Thu, 13 Feb 2014 11:25:16 +0000

Beginning 12 February 2014, the famous Madonna Sur

Publication Rogier van der Weyden and Stone Sculpture in Brussels

Matthias Depoorter — Fri, 31 Jan 2014 12:56:24 +0000

The activities of Rogier van der Weyden (1399/1400-1464) were much wider in scope than the well-known painted oeuvre that has been the subject of so many publications.

19th Symposium Study of Underdrawing and Technology in Painting

Matthias Depoorter — Fri, 31 Jan 2014 09:55:38 +0000

The Université catholique de Louvain (UCL, Louvain-la-Neuve), the Laboratoire d'étude des œuvres d'art par les méthodes scientifiques (Musée de Louvain-la-Neuve) and the Flemish research ce

Exhibition 'Jerome: Iconography in the sixteenth and the seventeenth century'

Matthias Depoorter — Wed, 08 Jan 2014 10:20:22 +0000

Visitors to Antwerp's Rockox House will get an impression of the opulence of the 17th century town houses of the city.

New publication: À la mode italienne

Matthias Depoorter — Fri, 13 Dec 2013 09:29:26 +0000

With her research into the archives of the Chambre des comptes de Lille, one of the most prestigious archives in the North of France, Federica Veratelli casts new light on the manner by wh

Illuminare launches new website

Matthias Depoorter — Wed, 11 Dec 2013 10:53:07 +0000

Illuminare - Centre for the Study of Medieval Art (KU Leuven) launched its new website

Launch of ‘The book of miracles’

Matthias Depoorter — Fri, 06 Dec 2013 14:49:56 +0000

The Book of Miracles that first surfaced a few years ago and recently made its way into an American private collection is one of the most spectacular new discoveries in the field of Renais

James Bloom, Visiting Professor at the University of Antwerp

Matthias Depoorter — Wed, 27 Nov 2013 10:22:54 +0000

From 12 through 20 December, James Bloom (Centre College, Louisville, Kentucky (USA)) is affiliated with the Department of History at the University of Antwerp as a Visiting Professor.

Permanent closure of the exhibition 'The Heritage of Rogier van der Weyden'

Matthias Depoorter — Fri, 22 Nov 2013 09:45:19 +0000

From the press release of the KMSKB on 21 November:

Lecture: 'The donor portrait in early Netherlandish painting'

Matthias Depoorter — Thu, 21 Nov 2013 11:02:32 +0000

Johanna Scheel (Universität Frankfurt) is the last speaker of the fall 2013 lectures of the Flemish Research Centre for the Arts in the Burgundian Netherlands.

Publication 'Meesterwerk. Van van Eyck tot Rubens in detail'

Matthias Depoorter — Thu, 31 Oct 2013 10:23:36 +0000

Till-Holger Borchert (Chief Conservator of the Groeninge Museum, Bruges) introduces an overview of important Flemish masterpieces in Meesterwerk.

Lecture Reflection and remembrance in Jan van Eyck’s Van der Paele Virgin

Matthias Depoorter — Fri, 25 Oct 2013 09:59:42 +0000

Douglas Brine (Trinity University, San Antonio, Texas (USA)) is the second speaker of the fall 2013 lectures of the Flemish Research Centre for the Arts in the Burgundian Netherlands.

The Groeninge Museum says goodbye to the Master of the Passion of Darmstadt

Matthias Depoorter — Fri, 18 Oct 2013 08:31:20 +0000

Upon the preparations for the exhibition, Van Eyck to Dürer, two panels from an anonymous Master from the area of the Middle Rhine came to the Groeninge Museum in Bruges in the ear

CODART eZine: Curator's collection Groeninge Museum

Matthias Depoorter — Thu, 17 Oct 2013 10:46:17 +0000

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

Exhibition The heritage of Rogier van der Weyden

Matthias Depoorter — Wed, 09 Oct 2013 09:43:07 +0000

As of 12 October the Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium in Brussels will stage an exhibition devoted to painting in Brussels in the period between the death of Rogier van der Weyden (146

Exhibition Face to face

Matthias Depoorter — Fri, 27 Sep 2013 09:11:25 +0000

The exhibition Face to Face: Flanders, Florence, and Renaissance Painting explores how Flemish artists helped make the innovative, sophisticated, and beautiful works of th

Exhibition Secrets of the Painters - Cologne in the Middle Ages

Matthias Depoorter — Thu, 12 Sep 2013 10:02:17 +0000

The wild beast bares its fangs in a fearful grimace, flames spurt from its maw and sparkling in its bloodshot eyes is a look of the purest evil.

Artwork Groeninge Museum in Vienna

Matthias Depoorter — Fri, 05 Jul 2013 08:34:26 +0000

On 3 July, the Groeninge Museum in Bruges delivered the panel, Isabella of Portugal with Saint Elisabeth by Petrus Christus on loan to the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna.

VKC images on ARTstor

Matthias Depoorter — Thu, 06 Jun 2013 14:10:54 +0000

Since 24 May, Lukas-Art in Flanders is collaborating with ARTstor to share worldwide more than 4400 images from more than 30 important Flemish collections.

Call for papers: Symposium XIX for the Study of Underdrawing and Technology in Painting

Matthias Depoorter — Thu, 16 May 2013 10:29:58 +0000

In preparation of the XIXth symposium for the Study of Underdrawing and Technology in Painting to be held in Bruges (11-13 September 2014), the UCL (Louvain-la-Neuve), the Laborato

Catalogue exhibition Magnificent Middle Ages

Matthias Depoorter — Fri, 22 Mar 2013 09:47:59 +0000

A new piece of academic art research by Lieve Watteeuw and Catherine Reynolds is the basis for the exhibition

New study: Staging the Court of Burgundy

Matthias Depoorter — Wed, 13 Mar 2013 10:17:39 +0000

The volume Staging the Court of Burgundy (Studies in Medieval and Early Renaissance Art History) presents a study of the Burgundian court during the 15th century, and provides a f

Exhibition Hieronymus Cock - The renaissance in print

Matthias Depoorter — Fri, 08 Mar 2013 12:34:03 +0000

From 14 March to 9 June 2013 Hieronymus Cock - The renaissance in print runs at M - Museum Leuven.

Exhibition and Congress: Love & Devotion. The Gruuthuse Manuscript

Matthias Depoorter — Wed, 06 Mar 2013 09:28:35 +0000

The Gruuthuse Museum is a city palace in Bruges, built in the 15th century. Its most famous resident was Lodewijk van Gruuthuse (approx.

Groeninge Museum Masterpiece Shines in National Geographic Documentary

Matthias Depoorter — Fri, 01 Mar 2013 12:35:04 +0000

The National Geographic Channel is renowned worldwide for its documentaries on Science and Nature.

Master of the Baroncelli portraits at the Groeninge Museum

Matthias Depoorter — Thu, 28 Feb 2013 13:23:03 +0000

One of the most spectacular paintings of the Flemish Primitives, which was to be seen in the previous decade at the prestigious art fair TEFAF in Maastricht, will be exhibited in the Groeni

New Memling On the Auction Block

Matthias Depoorter — Fri, 08 Feb 2013 16:20:17 +0000

The previously unknown painted panel by Hans Memling (ca.

Symposium The road to Van Eyck - The recently discovered drawing from Van Eyck's studio

Matthias Depoorter — Fri, 25 Jan 2013 15:03:24 +0000

One of the greatest discoveries at the exhibition, The Road to Van Eyck, currently on view at the Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, is a

The Magnificent Middle Ages at the Plantin-Moretus Museum

Matthias Depoorter — Fri, 25 Jan 2013 14:25:17 +0000

The exhibition, The Magnificent Middle Ages, displays 40 striking and important examples of book illumination.

A New Memling!

Matthias Depoorter — Thu, 20 Dec 2012 15:26:22 +0000

A previously unknown panel by Hans Memling (ca. 1435-1494) has recently been discovered in a private collection on the East Coast of the United States.

Lecture: Family Affairs. Unpublished profiles of Italian Patrons in Bruges (1477-1530)

Matthias Depoorter — Tue, 27 Nov 2012 14:36:36 +0000

Federica Veratelli (Art historical researcher, and temporarily associated with Université Paris-Est Créteil Val de Marne) is the second speaker in the series, Lectures of the Flemish Resear

The Portuguese in Bruges and Antwerp in the 15th and 16th Centuries

Matthias Depoorter — Fri, 09 Nov 2012 14:50:26 +0000

The Flemish Research Centre for the Arts in the Burgundian Netherlands, established in 2010 by the Groeninge Museum of Bruges and the Flemish Art Collection, seeks

The Book, Vision & Material

Matthias Depoorter — Fri, 19 Oct 2012 09:32:38 +0000

As a consequence of the Vision and Material conference, held in Brussels in 2010, which was organised by the Flemish Academic Centre (VLAC is an initiative of the Royal Flemish Aca

An Eyckian drawing at the exhibition The Road to van Eyck

Matthias Depoorter — Tue, 09 Oct 2012 12:49:46 +0000

On 13 October the exhibition The road to van Eyck will open at the Boijmans van Beuningen Museum in Rotterdam.

Restoration Ghent Altarpiece

Matthias Depoorter — Thu, 27 Sep 2012 14:44:09 +0000

Getty Research Portal

Matthias Depoorter — Thu, 06 Sep 2012 09:31:12 +0000

The Getty Research Institute launched the Getty Research Portal, an unprecedented resource that will provide universal access to digitized texts in the field of art and arc

Past, Present and Future of the Adoration of the Lamb

Matthias Depoorter — Wed, 29 Aug 2012 07:43:09 +0000

With the support of The Getty Foundation, the Adoration of the Lamb (Ghent Altarpiece) by the brothers Van Eyck (Saint Bavo Cathedral, Ghent) was thoroughly researched las

Leuven Remembers Veronique Vandekerchove

Matthias Depoorter — Wed, 27 Jun 2012 11:50:56 +0000

On Friday 29 June, the city of Leuven, KU Leuven, M-Museum Leuven and Illuminare-Study Centre for Medieval Art (KU Leuven) remember Veronique Vandekerchove, head conservator of M-Museum Leuven from

Van der Weyden in Context

Matthias Depoorter — Thu, 21 Jun 2012 09:04:28 +0000

When the Museum M in Leuven re-opened its doors on 20 September 2009, following a thorough renovation, the new launch was enhanced by the opening of the exhibition of Rogier van der Wey

Manuscripts of Artists' Biographies by Pieter Le Doulx Online

Matthias Depoorter — Fri, 08 Jun 2012 08:44:04 +0000

As an amateur historian, the Bruges artist Pieter Le Doulx (1730-1807) produced two grand, bountiful collections with some one thousand biographies of fellow townsmen

Masters from the Mauritshuis and KMSKA now to be seen in the Groeninge Museum

Matthias Depoorter — Thu, 31 May 2012 14:43:52 +0000

Beginning 17 May, twenty works of art from the Mauritshuis in The Hague (NL) and the Royal Museum for Fine Arts Antwerp will enhance the 15th and 16th-cent

KIK Art Research Series Consultable Online

Matthias Depoorter — Thu, 24 May 2012 14:36:55 +0000

The Centre for the Study of the Flemish Primitives, a division of the Royal Institute for Cultural Heritage in Brussels, is the publisher of three scientif

Newly Discovered Drawing by Pieter Bruegel the Elder

Matthias Depoorter — Thu, 26 Apr 2012 14:04:07 +0000

Newly discovered landscape drawing by Pieter Bruegel the Elder on display for the first time ever in the Museum Mayer van den Bergh

Caput Johannis in disco

Matthias Depoorter — Tue, 17 Apr 2012 10:41:11 +0000

Volume 8 of the series Visualising the Middle Ages is dedicated to the iconographical research of the head of Saint John the Baptist.

Van Eyck Studies Colloquium

Matthias Depoorter — Fri, 13 Apr 2012 10:32:51 +0000

The Royal Institute for Cultural Heritage (KIK/IRPA) and its Centre for the Study of the Flemish Primitives are honoured to announce the Van Eyck Studies Colloquium in Brussels on 19-21 September 2

Triptych of the Master of the Legend of Saint Lucy sold

Matthias Depoorter — Wed, 11 Apr 2012 07:59:19 +0000

A private collector recently paid one million euro for a triptych by the Master of the Legend of Saint Lucy

Drawings by Bosch

Matthias Depoorter — Wed, 11 Apr 2012 07:49:28 +0000

Jheronimus Bosch (ca. 1450-1516) primarily enjoys recognition for his fantastic and nearly diabolical works with various creatures that in general have a moralising meaning.

The Memling in Saint Jan's Hospital Museum Excited about Double Exhibition

Matthias Depoorter — Fri, 09 Mar 2012 15:41:16 +0000

For the Memling in Saint Jan's Hospital Museum, 2012 is becoming a golden year. In May, an exhibition opens, which can be called exceptional in more ways than one.

The Ghent Altarpiece in 100 billion pixels

Matthias Depoorter — Wed, 29 Feb 2012 11:39:27 +0000

It is now possible to zoom into the intricate, breathtaking details of one of the most important works of art in the world, thanks to a newly completed website focused on the Ghent Altarpiece

Veronique Vandekerchove Deceased

Matthias Depoorter — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 13:38:46 +0000

The Flemish Art Collection is deeply saddened to share with you the news of Veronique Vandekerchove's death (°1965).

Jan van Eyck back in the Hague?

Matthias Depoorter — Wed, 11 Jan 2012 08:53:35 +0000

For quite some time now, a drawing in the Louvre in Paris has been the cause for a bit of consideration.

Publication Sittow, Morros and de Flandes

Matthias Depoorter — Fri, 04 Nov 2011 15:05:31 +0000

The Flemish Research Centre for the Arts in the Burgundian Netherlands, which is located in the Sint-Andreas School on the Garenmarkt in Bruges and that is an initiative of the Groeninge Museum of

Monograph Albrecht Bouts

Matthias Depoorter — Wed, 12 Oct 2011 13:19:12 +0000

Albrecht Bouts (1451/55-1549) is the first monograph with an oeuvre catalogue dedicated to Albrecht Bouts. Bouts was the youngest son of Dieric Bouts.

Conference Flemish Miniatures

Matthias Depoorter — Thu, 06 Oct 2011 14:00:22 +0000

The Royal Library of Belgium, Illuminare - Study Centre for Medieval Art, the Royal Institute for Cultural Heritage and the Bibliothèque Nationale de France are organising a large international con

Exhibition Imperial Treasure

Matthias Depoorter — Fri, 09 Sep 2011 13:50:49 +0000

The Gemäldegalerie of the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna possesses one of the most important collections of Old Masters in the world.

Website with unique images of Ghent Altarpiece

Matthias Depoorter — Mon, 29 Aug 2011 11:11:53 +0000

The urgent conservation treatment of the Ghent Altarpiece in the Saint Bavo Cathedral in Ghent was finalised in October 2010.

KMSKA Loans in Leuven

Matthias Depoorter — Mon, 22 Aug 2011 09:41:18 +0000

After the re-opening of the M Leuven on 20 September 2009, the Royal Museum for Fine Arts of Antwerp placed six paintings by Old Masters (Quentin Massijs and Bernard van Orley) on long-term loan.

The Calvary restored

Matthias Depoorter — Wed, 20 Jul 2011 12:27:25 +0000

The conservation treatment of Antonello da Messina's the Calvary for the Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp (KMSKA) has been completed.

Portrait is an original Gossart

Matthias Depoorter — Wed, 20 Jul 2011 12:20:10 +0000

Restoration has revealed that Portrait of a Man, a painting in the collection of the Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp (KMSKA) that had previously been attributed to a fol