Tag: Belgium

Peter Paul Rubens

(1577–1640) Sir Peter Paul Rubens The artist’s works: Portrait of a Man 1597 Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Lamentation over the Dead Christ 1601–1602 Galleria Borghese, Roma Venus and Cupid c.1606–1611 Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid Portrait of a Young Woman with a Rosary…

La Voix des airs (1928)

Magritte, René (1898-1967) La Voix des airs (The Voice of Space) 1928 Oil on canvas, 64.77 x 49.53 cm Buffalo AKG Art Museum, Buffalo Surrealist René Magritte is best known for creating unusual compositions that are wonderfully strange in their illustrative…

La Mort des Fantômes (1928)

Magritte, René (1898-1967) La Mort des Fantômes (The Death of Ghosts) 1928 Gelatin silver print, 13.9 x 8.8 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York The great Surrealist painter of philosophical conundrums was also a prolific photographer who sometimes used his…

Aeneas and the Sibyl in the Underworld (1630s)

Brueghel, Jan the Younger (1601-1678) Aeneas and the Sibyl in the Underworld 1630s Oil on copper, 26.7 x 35.9 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York This infernal image of the 1630s was inspired by the “hell landscapes” of Jan Brueghel…

A Basket of Flowers (1620s)

Brueghel, Jan the Younger (1601-1678) A Basket of Flowers probably 1620s Oil on wood, 47 x 68.3 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Jan Brueghel the Younger was part of an artistic dynasty that transformed Flemish landscape, genre, and still-life…

La Clef des champs (1936)

Magritte, René (1898-1967) La Clef des champs (The Key to the Fields) 1936 Oil on canvas, 80 x 60 cm Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid “People who look for symbolic meanings [in my work] fail to grasp the inherent poetry and mystery of…

The Annunciation Diptych (c.1433-1435)

Van Eyck, Jan (c.1390-1441) The Annunciation Diptych c.1433–1435 Oil on panel, left wing: 38.8 x 23.2 cm; right wing: 39 x 24 cm Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid This diptych is an outstanding example of grisaille painting. Here, van Eyck deliberately rejects the…