Tag: Antwerp

Saint Barbara (1437)

Van Eyck, Jan (c.1390-1441) Saint Barbara 1437 Oil on panel, 32 x 18.2 cm Koninklijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten, Antwerp Barbara was the daughter of a nobleman who wanted to hide her away from admirers by locking her up in…

Two Chained Monkeys (1562)

Bruegel the Elder, Pieter (c.1525-1569) Two Chained Monkeys 1562 Oil on oak panel, 19.9 x 23.3 cm Gemäldegalerie, Berlin SHELFMARK / INSCRIPTION: Inscription lower left: • BRVEGEL • MDLXII • This unusual picture dates from the year 1562, shortly before Bruegel…

Twelve Proverbs (c.1558)

Bruegel the Elder, Pieter (c.1525-1569) Twelve Proverbs (Twaalf spreuken op borden) c.1558 Oak panel, 74.5 x 98.4 cm Museum Mayer van den Bergh, Antwerp

Dulle Griet (1561)

Bruegel the Elder, Pieter (c.1525-1569) Dulle Griet (Mad Meg) 1561 Oil on panel, 117.4 x 162 cm Museum Mayer van den Bergh, Antwerp ‘Like a director of horror films, the painter tried to appeal to all the senses in order to…

Museum Mayer van den Bergh (Antwerp)

Founded: 1904 Address: Lange Gasthuisstraat 19, 2000 Antwerpen, Belgium Website: https://museummayervandenbergh.be/en Collection: • Bruegel the Elder, Pieter (c.1525-1569): Dulle Griet (1561) • Bruegel the Elder, Pieter (c.1525-1569): Twelve Proverbs (c.1558) • Lairesse, Gérard de (1641-1711): Venus Giving Arms to Aeneas (1668) See also: • Antwerp (Belgium) | Museums

Antwerp (Belgium)

Antwerp in Art: Boudin, Eugène (1824-1898) Le quai à Anvers 1874 Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas     Braque, Georges (1882-1963) Le Port d’Anvers 1905 Kunstmuseum Basel, Basel     Braque, Georges (1882-1963) Le Port d’Anvers 1906 National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa    …

Jan Brueghel the Younger

(1601–1678) The artist’s works: A Basket of Flowers probably 1620s Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Aeneas and the Sibyl in the Underworld 1630s Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Jan Brueghel the Younger in Art: Rubens, Peter Paul (1577-1640) Family of Jan…

Jan Brueghel the Elder

(1568–1625) The artist’s works: The Temptation of Saint Anthony 1594 Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven Mountainous Landscape with Herdsmen c.1595 Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford Christ in the Storm on the Sea of Galilee 1596 Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid Adoration of the Magi 1598–1600 Hermitage…

Pieter Brueghel the Younger

(1564–1638) The artist’s works: The Building of the Tower of Babel c.1595 Museo del Prado, Madrid .Garland with the Adoration of the Magi 16th–17th century Museo del Prado, Madrid The Rape of Proserpina 16th–17th century Museo del Prado, Madrid Landscape…