Groeningemuseum
Illustration — The Groeningemuseum, Dijver 12, Bruges • Illustration — Jan van Eyck's The Madonna with Canon van der Paele is one of the masterpieces of the museum • Illustration — Hieronymus Bosch's The Last Judgement (c. 1486 • Illustration — Joseph Denis Odevaere, Lord Byron on his Death-bed The Groeningemuseum is a municipal museum in Bruges, Belgium, built on the site of the medieval Eekhout Abbey. It houses a collection of Flemish and Belgian painting covering six centuries, from Jan van Eyck to Marcel Broodthaers.
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Groeningemuseum
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- 1929
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- Belgium
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- Musea Brugge
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Illustration — The Groeningemuseum, Dijver 12, Bruges • Illustration — Jan van Eyck's The Madonna with Canon van der Paele is one of the masterpieces of the museum • Illustration — Hieronymus Bosch's The Last Judgement (c. 1486 • Illustration — Joseph Denis Odevaere, Lord Byron on his Death-bed The Groeningemuseum is a municipal museum in Bruges, Belgium, built on the site of the medieval Eekhout Abbey. It houses a collection of Flemish and Belgian painting covering six centuries, from Jan van Eyck to Marcel Broodthaers.
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1929
Groeningemuseum established.
1929
Groeningemuseum is recorded from 1929.
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The museum's highlights include Early Netherlandish paintings, works by 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.
• 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 (c. 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 • Vigor van Heede • Allegorical portrait of a man
Title page of the book Catalogue du Musée de l'Académie de Bruges (Bruges and London, 1861) by W.H. James Weale
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Groeningemuseum, in Brugges (Belgium).
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