Groeningemuseum
The Groeningemuseum is a municipal museum in Bruges, Belgium, built on the site of the medieval Eekhout Abbey.
The Groeningemuseum, Dijver 12, Bruges
Jan van Eyck's The Madonna with Canon van der Paele is one of the masterpieces of the museum
Joseph Denis Odevaere, Lord Byron on his Death-bed
It houses a comprehensive survey of six centuries of Flemish and Belgian painting, from Jan van Eyck to Marcel Broodthaers. The museum's many highlights include its collection of Early Netherlandish paintings, works by a wide range of Renaissance and Baroque masters, as well as a selection of paintings from the 18th and 19th century neo-classical and realist periods, milestones of Belgian symbolism and modernism, masterpieces of Flemish Expressionism and many items from the city's collection of post-war modern art.
Works include
- Jan van Eyck:
- The Madonna with Canon van der Paele (1436)
- Portrait of Margareta van Eyck (1439)
- Portrait of Christ (1440)
- Pieter Pourbus
- Gerard David
- The Judgment of Cambyses Part 1, The Judgment of Sisamnes (1498)
- The Judgment of Cambyses Part 2, The Flaying of Sisamnes (1498)
- The Baptism of Christ (1502-1508)
- Hieronymus Bosch and workshop
- The Last Judgement (c. 1486)
- Adriaen Isenbrandt:
- Portrait of Paulus de Nigro (1518)
- Triptych
- Hugo van der Goes
- Death of the Virgin (c. 1472-1480)
- Nicolaes Maes:
- Portrait of Four Children (1657)
- Jan Provoost
- Crucifixion (ca 1500)
- Last Judgment for the Bruges town hall (1525)
- Dirk Bouts
- Triptych of the Martyrdom of St. Hippolytus
- Fernand Khnopff
- Secret-Reflet
- René Magritte
- L'Attentat
Sources
- van Uffelen, Chris (2010). Contemporary Museums - Architecture, History, Collections. Braun Publishing. pp. 164–165. ISBN 978-3-03768-067-4.
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