EXPERIENCE THE FLEMISH MASTERS PROGRAMME 2018 - 2020
1 The contents of this brochure may be subject to change. For up-to-date information: check www.visitflanders.com/flemishmasters.
2 THE FLEMISH MASTERS 2018-2020
AT THE PINNACLE OF ARTISTIC INVENTION FROM THE MIDDLE AGES ONWARDS, FLANDERS WAS THE INSPIRATION BEHIND THE FAMOUS ART MOVEMENTS OF THE TIME: PRIMITIVE, RENAISSANCE AND BAROQUE. FOR A PERIOD OF SOME 250 YEARS, IT WAS THE PLACE TO MEET AND EXPERIENCE SOME OF THE MOST ADMIRED ARTISTS IN WESTERN EUROPE. THREE PRACTITIONERS IN PARTICULAR, VAN EYCK, BRUEGEL AND RUBENS ROSE TO PROMINENCE DURING THIS TIME AND CEMENTED THEIR PLACE IN THE PANTHEON OF ALL-TIME GREATEST MASTERS.
3 FLANDERS WAS THEN A MELTING POT OF ART AND CREATIVITY, SCIENCE AND INVENTION, AND STILL TODAY IS A REGION THAT BUSTLES WITH VITALITY AND INNOVATION.
The “Flemish Masters” project has THE FLEMISH MASTERS been established for the inquisitive PROJECT 2018-2020 traveller who enjoys learning about others as much as about him or The Flemish Masters project focuses Significant infrastructure herself. It is intended for those on the life and legacies of van Eyck, investments in tourism and culture who, like the Flemish Masters in Bruegel and Rubens active during are being made throughout their time, are looking to immerse th th th the 15 , 16 and 17 centuries, as well Flanders in order to deliver an themselves in new cultures and new as many other notable artists of the optimal visitor experience. In insights. time. addition, a programme of high- quality events and exhibitions From 2018 through to 2020, Many of the works by these original with international appeal will be VISITFLANDERS is hosting an Flemish Masters can be admired all organised throughout 2018, 2019 abundance of activities and events over the world but there is no doubt and 2020. that will entice visitors from all over that the experience is truer and the world to come and explore the more powerful when they are seen in THERE ARE THREE MUST-SEE Flemish Masters and their works Flanders, where the art works were HIGHLIGHTS: and will leave them inspired and created. On a visit to Flanders visitors enriched by the experience. can walk through the actual house 1. In 2018 the city of Antwerp will where Rubens lived and worked, see celebrate its baroque cultural the landscapes that inspired Pieter heritage and the baroque Bruegel the Elder, and discover an lifestyle that is undeniably part original painting by van Eyck in of the city’s DNA. ‘Antwerp the exact location depicted in the Baroque 2018. Rubens inspires’ painted scene. will connect Rubens with his
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baroque heritage in several 2. In 2019 there will be numerous the Southern Netherlands cultural disciplines and a series events in Brussels, Antwerp 1525-1585’. of events and exhibitions, and all over Flanders, marking culminating in the opening of the 450th anniversary of 3. After its painstaking restoration the Rubens Experience Center Bruegel’s death in 1569. the magnificent Ghent and the re-opening of the Altarpiece will return to the Royal Museum of Fine Arts In spring 2019, Bruegel will St Bavo’s Cathedral in 2020. Antwerp in 2019. be omnipresent in Brussels, Merely the latest in a long line as the city will honour its of restorations, the last one was The museum is not only a former inhabitant with several carried out in the early 1950s, true Rubens’ treasure trove, exquisite exhibitions and a this one is certainly the most but it also houses some of the city-wide programme of events. remarkable and impressive of finest Flemish Primitive’s art Autumn 2019 will bring Bruegel them all. including Jan van Eyck’s Saint to Antwerp, where the newly Barbara and Madonna at the refurbished museum of Fine Fountain and Rogier van der Arts Antwerp opens with a Weyden’s Seven Sacraments must-see exhibition: ‘BRUEGEL’S Altarpiece. CENTURY. Art in Antwerp and
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2018-19 TRAVEL WITH RUBENS TO HIS HOMETOWN ANTWERP p. 9 2019 EXPERIENCE THE WORLD OF BRUEGEL p. 27
6 2020 THE GHENT ALTARPIECE IS COMING HOME p. 41
2018-2020 BRUGES, HOMETOWN OF THE FLEMISH PRIMITIVES p. 47
DISCOVER THE FLEMISH MASTERS OFF THE BEATEN TRACK p. 53
7 8 PETER PAUL RUBENS IS MOSTLY KNOWN AS A SUCCESSFUL ARTIST, BUT HE WAS ALSO AN ESTEEMED DIPLOMAT, POLYGLOT AND COLLECTOR. HE IS ONE OF THE MOST FAMOUS INHABITANTS OF ANTWERP.
HIS BRILLIANCE LIVES ON AND HE IS STILL VERY MUCH PART OF THE CITY, AND NOT ONLY IN ITS BAROQUE PAINTINGS AND ARCHITECTURE. RUBENS IS A GREAT INSPIRATION FOR CONTEMPORARY ARTISTS AND THE A-TYPICAL WAY OF LIFE OF THE CITY AND ITS INHABITANTS.
9 A STELLAR TALENT and Jacob Jordaens. The studio produced hundreds of Rubens was born in 1577 creations and paintings, many in Siegen (in present-day specifically to order. Germany), but soon moved to Antwerp with his mother after his father died when A DIPLOMATIC CAREER he was young. It was there that he learnt to paint, taking A favourite of Archduchess instruction from artists such Isabella, Rubens became as Tobias Verhaecht, Adam increasingly involved in van Noort and Otto van Veen. diplomatic missions on her behalf. It was he who In 1600, he travelled to finally brokered a peace Rome and Venice in Italy, deal between Spain and and then later to Spain. It England, a move that would was clear even then that he eventually lead to a cessation was no ordinary talent as of hostilities between the he soon began to receive Spanish and the Dutch, close Royal commissions from both allies of the English. courts. Rubens was a highly esteemed court guest all RUBENS HOUSE over Europe with many AND WORK STUDIOS contemporaries considering him as skilled a diplomat as In 1608, he returned to he was a painter. He was Antwerp as the official court by then almost universally painter to the Low Countries, revered as an artist without a title bestowed on him by rival. Archduke Albert of Austria and Isabella of Spain. It was During his travels he at this time that he bought secured many high-profile a house and land on Wapper assignments, including Square - right in the centre commissions such as the of today’s Antwerp - and creation of 24 paintings set about redesigning it celebrating the life of Maria completely. de Medici for the Palais du Luxembourg in Paris. Inspired by the architecture of Roman Antiquity and the Renaissance, Rubens drew up A BAROQUE LEGEND the plans for the renovation himself, and turned an In 1630, Rubens returned ordinary Flemish house into to Flanders for good and a ‘palazzo’. He extended the bought Elewijt Castle outside home considerably adding a Brussels. There he painted studio, a garden pavilion and his largest commission to a domed sculpture museum. date, namely 112 works to There was also a magnificent decorate the Royal Hunting portico offering a beautiful Lodge in Madrid, the Torre de view of the courtyard garden la Parada. These were finally and the garden pavilion. The finished in 1638 only and were result was magnificent. From duly dispatched to Spain. then on, his studio would become a hive of activity Rubens’ health was beginning with many employees and to deteriorate, and he died in students, some of who went 1640 aged 62, at his home on to be famous in their own Antwerp’s Wapper Square. right, like Anthony van Dyck
10 ANTWERP BAROQUE 2018. RUBENS INSPIRES
Antwerp is the only city in the world to be so permeated in every respect by Peter Paul Rubens and his baroque legacy. “Antwerp Baroque 2018. Rubens inspires” is an opportunity to experience Rubens and baroque in many intense and unique ways.
11 THANKS TO ANTWERP’S AN ANTWERP STATE CULTURAL IDENTITY OF MIND RUBENS, THE Rubens’ house - today one of the The tradition for new and eccentric CONTEMPORARY city’s major museums - is a baroque architecture continues and baroque- classic, and there are still many like buildings are being added BAROQUE SPIRIT stylish churches in the city from this to Antwerp’s skyline all the time, era. Indeed, many of Antwerp’s great including Richard Rogers’ Court OF ANTWERP contemporary artists continue to House and Zaha Hadid’s Port LIVES ON. be inspired by Rubens’ extravagant House - both well worth the visit in baroque tradition, creating an themselves. authentic and distinctive joie de vivre in the city.
The word Baroque is derived from the Portuguese word ‘barocco’ meaning, ‘irregular pearl or stone’. This is perhaps the perfect metaphor for Antwerp as it evokes something mysterious, multifaceted and difficult to pin down, while remaining classic and amazingly contemporary at the same time.
12 I’M JUST A SIMPLE MAN STANDING ALONE WITH MY OLD BRUSHES, ASKING GOD FOR INSPIRATION. PETER PAUL RUBENS
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ANTWERP BAROQUE 2018. RUBENS INSPIRES
In 2018, the City of Antwerp will pay tribute to Peter Paul Rubens and his baroque, cultural legacy. Rubens is often identified with the Baroque and is an icon for Antwerp. Even today Rubens is an important source of inspiration for contemporary artists and the atypical lifestyle of the city and its inhabitants. In his wake, Antwerp artists have continued to innovate, culminating in a certain joie de vivre that is typical of our city. The Baroque festival establishes a dialogue between Rubens’s historic Baroque with the work of contemporary Baroque masters, including Jan Fabre, Luc Tuymans and Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui. This will lead to promising exhibitions, performances and events, with several new artistic creations, some of which will be permanently installed in the city. The opening ceremony for the new Rubens Experience Center in 2019 marks the close of the Baroque festival.
SUMMER 2018 AUTUMN 2018
OPENING WEEKEND EXPERIENCE TRAPS COKERYEN | PHOTO, FILM, FOOD CELEBRATION BAROQUE LIFE IN MIDDELHEIM MUSEUM SNIJDERS&ROCKOX HOUSE THE CITY PAUL KOOIKER MONUMENTAL CHURCHES MICHAELINA PHOTOGRAPHY MUSEUM OF MUSEUM AAN DE STROOM (MAS) ANTWERP (FOMU) BAROQUE BOOK DESIGN MUSEUM PLANTIN-MORETUS SANGUINE | BLOEDROOD RUBENS’ RETURN LUC TUYMANS ON BAROQUE RUBENS HOUSE. RUBENS’ RETURN MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY RUBENS HOUSE ART (M HKA) MONUMENTAL CHURCHES BAROQUE BUREZ BAROQUE BUREZ ATHOS BUREZ IN THE MAS ATHOS BUREZ IN THE MAS MUSEUM AAN DE STROOM (MAS) 2018 MUSEUM AAN DE STROOM (MAS)
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www.rubenshuis.be SUMMER 2018 www.mas.be Tue - Sun: 11 am - 6 pm Thu: 11 am - 9 pm OPENING WEEKEND MAS (MUSEUM AAN DE STROOM) TICKETS A BAROQUE CELEBRATION OF LIFE Hanzestedenplaats 1, Individual: 10 EURO The Opening Weekend will transform Antwerp Concessions, trade and groups of 12 the city into a stage for three whole or more: 8 EURO days. The program, entirely in the OPENING HOURS Under 12 years, Festival Card: free Baroque style, marks not only the FROM 1 JUNE TO 2 SEPTEMBER 2018 opening of three major exhibitions, Tue - Fri: 10 am - 5 pm but also includes flamboyant (last tickets sold at 4 pm) location theater, music, dance, and of Sat - Sun: 10 am - 6 pm course, fireworks! (last tickets sold at 5 pm) RUBENS’ RETURN Closed: Mondays PRACTICAL INFORMATION OUTSTANDING WORKS ADDED TO TICKETS THE RUBENS HOUSE COLLECTION Various locations in the city Individual: 10 EURO In the run-up to Antwerp Baroque From 1 to 3 june 2018 Concessions, trade and groups of 12 2018, ten special masterpieces will or more: 8 EURO be added to the Rubens House TICKETS Under 12 years, Festival Card: free collection. The Rubens House has Free already welcomed works by Tintoretto and Van Dyck. These are now joined by more company: works by an Italian master who inspired Rubens, works SANGUINE | BLOEDROOD by some of his most talented students, MICHAELINA LUC TUYMANS and masterpieces by Rubens himself, ON BAROQUE returning to the place where they were The exhibition devoted to Michaelina painted for the first time. And of course Wautier (1617?–1689) will demonstrate The Antwerp-based artist Luc Tuymans there is Rubens’ self-portrait, which the exceptional talent of an artist will contrast works from historical has yielded up many new secrets in the who grew up at a time when female baroque and contemporary masters course of thorough restoration. The artists were a rarity. Wautier was not at the Museum of Contemporary new acquisitions will be announced in afraid to produce large-scale history Art, Antwerp. A selection of baroque the run-up to the festival. paintings – a challenge that many pieces has been selected from the male painters shied away from. The collection at the Royal Museum of Fine 26 known works by her hand are DISCOVER THE RESTORED PORTICO Arts with contemporary work chosen AND GARDEN PAVILION remarkable for their daring subject by Luc Tuymans. From Rubens to matter and superior pictorial technique. The portico and the garden pavilion Wim Delvoye. From Caravaggio to Ed are the only two original features Kienholz. The exhibition devoted to Michaelina surviving from the Rubens House, as well as representing rare traces of Wautier is the first retrospective PRACTICAL INFORMATION exhibition of the work of this the master’s work as an architect. Baroque artist. These 400-year-old features are due www.muhka.be for restoration work once again. PRACTICAL INFORMATION During the festival year Antwerp M HKA Baroque 2018. ‘Rubens inspires’ Leuvensestraat 32, Antwerp The exhibition Michaelina is a production visitors will be able to follow and of the Rubens House and will discover the restoration on location. OPENING HOURS Guided tours, lectures, site visits and exceptionally be hosted by the MAS. FROM 1 JUNE TO 16 SEPTEMBER 2018
16 various digital applications give PRACTICAL INFORMATION BAROQUE BUREZ visitors the opportunity to literally www.middelheimmuseum.be ATHOS BUREZ IN THE MAS get close to Rubens’ architecture. MIDDELHEIM MUSEUM BOULEVARD PRACTICAL INFORMATION Middelheimlaan 61, Antwerp + various locations in the city ATHOS BUREZ AT THE MAS www.rubenshuis.be In 2018, MAS hosts the young OPENING HOURS photographic artist Athos Burez with RUBENS HOUSE, Wapper 9 – 11, Antwerp FROM 1 JUNE TO 30 SEPTEMBER 2018 a photo series about baroque. In 30 Groundfloor is wheelchair accessible JUNE - JULY: Tue - Sun: 10 am - 9 pm images and installations, he offers AUGUST: Tue - Sun: 10 am - 8 pm an idiosyncratic and contemporary OPENING HOURS SEPTEMBER: Tue - Sun: 10 am - 7 pm look at different genres from this FROM 1 JUNE TO 2 SEPTEMBER 2018 stylistic period: still lifes, portraits, Tue - Fri: 10 am - 5 pm TICKETS landscapes and interiors. Burez’s (last tickets sold at 4 pm) Free work is characterised by an almost Sat - Sun: 10 am - 5 pm surrealistic take on familiar images (last tickets sold at 4 pm) which means that they often seem Closed: Mondays to be hovering between two worlds. In this photo exhibition at the MAS, TICKETS PAUL KOOIKER old baroque elements go hand in Individual: 8 EURO hand with the present-day, creating a Concessions, trade and groups of 12 At FOMU, the Rubenesque is laid completely new and unique baroque or more: 6 EURO bare, and contextualised with work visual culture. The exhibition can be by Dutch artist Paul Kooiker. visited for free on the MAS Boulevard Under 12 years, Festival Card: free from 1 June 2018. Diptychs, triptychs PRACTICAL INFORMATION and polyptychs fill the lightbox walls to create beacons recognisable from www.fomu.be a distance. EXPERIENCE TRAPS FOMU PRACTICAL INFORMATION The Middelheim Museum is highlighting (Museum of Photography) MAS (MUSEUM AAN DE STROOM) the contemporary legacy of the Waalsekaai 47, Antwerp Hanzestedenplaats 1, Antwerp Baroque, by emphasizing the tension between the natural and the artificial. OPENING HOURS FROM 29 JUNE TO 07 OCTOBER 2018 www.mas.be The grotto, the maze, the tableau Tuesday - Sunday, 10 am - 6 pm OPENING HOURS vivant, the folly, the fountain, FROM 1 JUNE TO 31 OCTOBER 2018 the trompe l’oeil - each of these TICKETS Tue – Sun: 9.30 am – 9.30 pm baroque motifs inspires international Individual: 10 EURO, Groups: 7 EURO FROM 1 NOVEMBER 2018 – 31 MARCH contemporary artists to create Trade: 7 EURO, 2019 new works, at the crossroads Under 26 years: 3 EURO Tue – Sun: 9.30 am – 11.30 pm between architecture, sculpture Free: under 18 years, Festival Card Closed: Mondays and installation, specifically for the Middelheim Museum and public TICKETS: spaces in the city, that will beguile, Acces to MAS Boulevard and the surprise, impress the public. exhibition Baroque Burez is FREE
17 ART SHOWS, DANCE AND PRACTICAL INFORMATION 1 NOVEMBER TO 31 DECEMBER 2018 MUSIC IN MONUMENTAL Sat - Sun: 2 pm - 5 pm JAN FABRE CHURCHES TICKETS New altarpieces by Jan Fabre in the Individual: 3 EURO Antwerp has five monumental historic St. Augustine Church Trade and concession: 2 EURO churches where Baroque and the Under 12 years; Festival Card: free Rubens’ living environment come to ST. AUGUSTINE CHURCH life ‘in situ’. The majestic Cathedral Kammenstraat 81, Antwerp of Our Lady, St. Paul’s Church, St. A BAROQUE JEWEL IN Andrew’s, Carolus Borromeus Church OPENING HOURS A GOTHIC SHRINE and the recently restored St. James’ Inauguration: 15 AUGUST 2018 ST. PAUL CHURCH Church. These churches belonged to Open to public: openingdays tbc the most enthusiastic commissioners Sint Paulusstraat 22, Antwerp of new work from Rubens and his TICKETS (entrance through Veemarkt 14) contemporaries. In 2018 this permanent tbc; free (festival card) display is being brought even closer to OPENING HOURS the visitor: Rubens’ masterpieces in the ART INTERVENTIONS 1 JUNE TO 31 OCTOBER 2018 cathedral, the Baroque master at work CATHEDRAL Mon - Sun: 2 pm - 5 pm as an architect in Carolus Borromeus, his burial chapel in St. James’ Church. OF OUR LADY 1 NOVEMBER TO 31 DECEMBER 2018 Nowhere else can you get so close to Sat - Sun: 2 pm - 5 pm Handschoenmarkt, Antwerp this rich past. OPENING HOURS TICKETS But there’s more, Antwerp Baroque FROM 1 JUNE TO 31 DECEMBER 2018 Free 2018 is building bridges with the Mon - Fri: 10 am - 5 pm present by way of contemporary Sat: 10 am - 3 pm BAROQUE CHASUBLE interventions, from visual art to Sun and holidays: 1 pm - 4 pm FASHION dance and music which always ST. ANDRIES CHURCH found inspiration in Rubens’ work. TICKETS St. Andrew’s concentrates on Individual 6 EURO Sint Andriesstraat 7/4, Antwerp contemporary designs of chasubles, Trade & concession 4 EURO (entrance through Waaistraat) research is being carried out in Free (festival card) Rubens’ burial chapel in the hope OPENING HOURS of making Ruben’s biography RUBENS’ FUNERAL CHAPEL FROM 1 JUNE TO 31 DECEMBER 2018 even more complete, St. Carolus Mo - Sun: 9 am - 12 am & 2 am – 5 pm Borromeus Church is the backdrop ST. JAMES’ CHURCH Closed: Sat: 9 am - 10 pm; Sun:9 am for dance creations by the renowned Lange Nieuwstraat 73-75, Antwerp to 12 pm choreographer Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui. A walk around these churches immerses OPENING HOURS TICKETS the visitor in a wonderful world of 1 JUNE TO 31 OCTOBER 2018 Free fine arts, inspiration and wonder. Mon - Sun: 2 pm - 5 pm
18 MUSIC & DANCE IN selection with his own work. And all collaboration with Balthasar RUBENS’ ARCHITECTURE of that in the home and studio of I Moretus, the grandson of Frans Snijders himself, which opens its Christophe Plantin, with whom CHARLES BORROMEUS doors to the public in 2018. he created the Baroque Book. CHURCH Contemporary book designers give A delicious and delectable exhibition, their vision on book architecture.’I Hendrik Conscienceplein 12, which is followed perfectly by a visit don’t print for the same price as Antwerp to one of the baroque restaurants or other printers’, said Balthasar ‘as food trucks that Antwerp has to offer. Rubens doesn’t paint for the same OPENING HOURS price as other painters’. Esther FROM 1 JUNE TO 31 DECEMBER 2018 PRACTICAL INFORMATION Chadwick, Apollo Feb 2017. Mon - Sat: 10 am - 1.30 pm and 2 pm - 5 pm www.rockoxhuis.be PRACTICAL INFORMATION
Closed on Sundays and holidays SNIJDERS&ROCKOX HOUSE www.museumplantinmoretus.be Music & dance performances: dates Keizerstraat 10, Antwerp tbc Vrijdagmarkt 22, Antwerp OPENING HOURS FROM 28 SEPTEMBER 2018 OPENING HOURS TO 13 JANUARY 2019 FROM 28 SEPTEMBER 2018 TO Tue - Sun: 10 am - 5 pm (Last tickets 6 JANUARY 2019 AUTUMN 2018 sold at 4 pm) Tue-Sun: 10 am - 5 pm Closed Closed on Mondays, 1 November, 25 & on Mondays, 1 November, 25 COKERYEN | PHOTO, 26 December, 1 & 2 January. December, 1 January FILM, FOOD TICKETS TICKETS The Baroque painter Frans Snijders Individual: 10 EURO Invidual: 8 EURO (Antwerp, 1579-1657) is famous for Concessions, trade and groups of 12 Concessions, trade and groups of his hunting scenes, impressive or more: 8 EURO 12 or more: 6 EURO market scenes and still lifes. Rubens Under 12 years, Festival Card: free Under 12 years, Festival Card: free regularly relied on Snijders to execute sections of his paintings on his behalf. Similar to Frans Snijders, food photographer Tony Le Duc also has a PLEASE NOTE keen eye for attractive compositions. BAROQUE BOOK DESIGN Experimenting with colour, he Rubens’ return in Rubens elevates basic food items to artworks. The MUSEUM PLANTIN-MORETUS, house and the exhibitions in For the exhibition Cokeryen | Photo, an UNESCO World Heritage the monumental churches can Film, Food Le Duc brings the works Site, pays tribute to all book still be visited until the end of of Snijders and his contemporaries designers and especially to Peter December 2018, Baroque Burez together, in which food and Paul Rubens. Special attention even until 30 April 2019. ingredients are key. He confronts the goes to Rubens friendship and
19 UNIQUE RUBENS’ ACTIVITIES FOR TOUR GROUPS.
BAROQUE FESTIVAL available in March 2018. German. Italian and Spanish on CARD 2018 - Downloadable free on request. smartphones and tablets - Depending on the museum, The Baroque Festival Card is the best - Available in Dutch / English / groups of min. 15 persons to max. way to discover Antwerp Baroque French / German. Other languages 20 persons 2018. This pass is valid for 48 hours to follow. - 75 EURO (excl. booking fee) (starting from your first visit) and More information: entitles you to free admission to all www.antwerpmuseumapp.com or More information: the exhibitions and monumental www.visitantwerpen.be/trade-baroque www.visitantwerpen.be/trade-baroque churches offering a programme as part of Antwerp Baroque 2018. The pass also entitles you to discounts to other events. What’s more, you also GUIDED WALKING TOUR LATE-NIGHT OPENINGS receive a handy guide and map with AND SPECIAL RECEPTIONS useful information on all the must- The Rubens Walking Tour begins see baroque locations. Please note in the vicinity of the Scheldt, the - Exclusive visits and opening hours that the card does not include public river that brought Antwerp wealth - Visits behind the scenes, including transportation. and enabled its artists to flourish. private organ concerts in historic The tour takes participants down churches More information: the neighbouring narrow streets - Creative workshops in printing, www.visitantwerpen.be/trade-baroque past stonemasons’ houses and engraving, bookbinding bankers’ residences into the city The Baroque Festival Card costs 25 centre. It then passes hip antique Please contact: euros and can be ordered online and fashion shops before reaching [email protected] as from this autumn 2017. Kindly the high point: Rubens house contact [email protected] itself. Available in Dutch / English / about the trade rates. French / German.
- Max. 20 participants - 75 EURO (excl. booking fee) ANTWERP MUSEUM APP - Bookings should be made at least 3 THE BAROQUE EDITION weeks in advance via: PRACTICAL www.visitantwerpen.be INFORMATION Antwerp is a real treat for baroque More information: and Rubens lovers. There’s a wealth ALL PRICES AND DATES www.visitantwerpen.be ARE SUBJECT TO CHANGE of art, history and baroque joie de www.visitantwerpen.be/trade-baroque vivre to discover. Enjoy tours and walks, but also tips from locals. [email protected] www.visitantwerpen.be/trade- This app will be the ultimate guide baroque to exploring the baroque wealth GUIDED EXHIBITION T +32 (0)3 201 15 57 and hidden secrets of the city. TOURS
- Baroque tours, walks and tips - In Dutch / English / French /
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OPENING RUBENS EXPERIENCE CENTRE
Meet one of the most versatile Snijders, Christophe Plantin and artists ever: Peter Paul Rubens. Jacob Jordaens. In the third room, Explore his palazzo and studio, Rubens guides a journey to Italy and pay a visit to his friends and Spain, where he himself travelled relatives, travel around Europe in his time and shows how he has in the company of this diplomat remained famous right through to and discover why his name still the present day. resonates well into the 21st century. In the brand-new Rubens A visit to the Rubens Experience Experience Centre, uncover the Centre is the ideal starting point for mystery of one of the greatest a Rubens Experience in Antwerp. The artists ever, right in his hometown centre provides direct access to the of Antwerp. Rubens House, the Rubenianum and Rubens’ garden, as well as everything Meet Peter Paul Rubens the man, else related to Rubens in the city. artist, Antwerper, businessman and diplomat. And Rubens himself PRACTICAL INFORMATION guides and hosts visitors in a virtual world dedicated to the Master’s www.visitantwerpen.be/trade-baroque life and work. Drawing together, as it does, special effects, innovative RUBENS EXPERIENCE CENTRE interactive features and full-scale Hopland, Antwerp Music, theatre, evocations, the Rubens Experience Neighbourhood of the Rubens Centre extends over three House opera and other interactive galleries and includes art forms will multiple different experiences. In TRADE CONTACT the first gallery is Rubens at work in [email protected] be performed at his studio or busy at home talking T +32 (0)3 201 15 57 Antwerp’s leading with his friends and family. In the second gallery Rubens shows off his OPENING HOURS venues by beloved city: Antwerp. A sensational Autumn 2019 companies of virtual walk through the city takes visitors past the places that are TICKETS global stature. important in Rubens’ life and art. Admission included in ticket for From June to The route includes the Cathedral Rubens House of Our Lady, St Charles Borromeo’s Individual: 8 EURO December 2018. Church, St Paul’s Church and St Concession and trade: 6 EURO James’ Church, as well as the houses Under 12 years, Antwerp City Card: of his friends Nicolaas Rockox, Frans free
21 EXHIBITION ‘DESIGNED BY RUBENS’
‘Designed by Rubens’ focuses on a remarkable PRACTICAL INFORMATION aspect of the oeuvre of this brilliant artist: Rubens as a designer of exclusive, luxury art www.rubenshuis.be objects in costly materials such as silver, ivory and bronze. It was during his stay in Italy that RUBENS HOUSE Rubens first saw such objects. In his studio Wapper 9 - 11, Antwerp in Antwerp, Rubens embraced this artistic challenge by making designs for such precious TRADE CONTACT showpieces. For their execution, he turned [email protected] to young, talented artist friends, such as the T +32 (0)3 201 15 57 German sculptor Georg Petel (1601/02-1634), and the Flemish sculptors Artus I Quellinus OPENING HOURS (1609-1668) and Lucas Faydherbe (1617-1697). Autumn 2019
For the first time ever, some thirty designs TICKETS (paintings, oil sketches and drawings) and the tbc objects themselves will be brought together in a fascinating exhibition.
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ANYONE WHO SAYS ANTWERP, THINKS RUBENS
In no other city in the world will you find as many tangible reminders of Rubens as in Antwerp, for he spent most of his life living and working there. It was where he received his training, where he experienced family joys and sorrows, and where he welcomed princes and dignitaries as a diplomat for the Low Countries. It was also the place where he did his painting, becoming by popular acclaim, the greatest painter of his era. His presence is still keenly felt in the city. His statue welcomes visitors to the Groenplaats and more than fifty of his works are on display in various museums and churches, often in the setting for which they were created. His home, studio and grave are all located in Antwerp.
RUBENS HOUSE
Peter Paul Rubens (1577-1640) according to his own designs, personally welcomed many a visitor to include a garden screen and PRACTICAL INFORMATION to the Rubens House. The Master pavilion, a sculpture museum and a lived here for many years with his studio. www.rubenshuis.be family, and painted with colleagues and assistants in the studio that RESTORATION RUBENS HOUSE he designed himself. Much of his RUBENS’ SELF-PORTRAIT Wapper 9-11, Antwerp extensive oeuvre originated in this house, in the heart of Antwerp. The Rubens House is utterly TRADE CONTACT unique, home to a collection of Visit Antwerp Here, Rubens shows who he really masterpieces by Rubens himself, [email protected] was: painter, art collector, father, as well as his colleagues and T +32 (0)3 232 01 03 friend, architect and teacher. His contemporaries. One such is most famous and without a doubt Rubens’s self-portrait. The artist TICKETS his most talented collaborator was painted himself surprisingly rarely, Individual: 8 EURO Anthony van Dyck (1599-1641). He and when he did so, he always Concessions, trade and groups of 12 was an extraordinary artist whose represented himself as a confident or more: 6 EURO qualities Rubens quickly spotted. and distinguished gentleman, And in truth, he was Rubens’ first never as a painter. The portrait is serious rival. Later, while working in traditionally dated to 1630, the year Italy and London, Van Dyck emerged in which Rubens married Helena as a virtuoso portraitist. Van Dyck’s Fourment. He was 53 years old portraits in the Rubens House at the time. Rubens’s self-portrait illustrate his unfailing sensitivity and will undergo some much-needed brilliant technique. restoration. The masterpiece will return to public during the ‘Antwerp GARDEN PAVILION Baroque year 2018’ urban cultural festival. Restored to his original Peter Paul Rubens purchased his splendor, Rubens will be the event‘s house in 1610. He had it extended, magnificent host.
23 ROYAL MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS ANTWERP
Currently closed for renovation, it will reopen Autumn 2019. It will be worth the wait as it houses one of the finest Rubens collections in Belgium.
PRACTICAL INFORMATION
ROYAL MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS ANTWERP Leopold de Waelplaats 2, Antwerp
TRADE CONTACT Birgit Pluvier [email protected] T +32(0)3 224 95 67
SNIJDERS&ROCKOX HOUSE
The former residence of the Antwerp mayor at the time, Nicolaas Rockox, and a friend and patron of Rubens is a treasure trove of baroque art.
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www.rockoxhuis.be
SNIJDERS&ROCKOX HOUSE Keizerstraat 10, Antwerp
TRADE CONTACT Patrick Wuytack [email protected] T +32 (0)3 201 92 50
MUSEUM PLANTIN-MORETUS
UNESCO WORLD HERITAGE The house of Rubens’ good friend, door Balthasar Moretus, grandson of Christophe Plantin, and the place where many of his engravings were printed.
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MUSEUM PLANTIN-MORETUS Vrijdagsmarkt 2, Antwerp
TRADE CONTACT [email protected] T +32 (0)3 232 01 03
24 OPENING HOURS Tue - Sun: 10 am - 5 pm TRADE CONTACT ST. CHARLES BORROMEO Closed Mondays, 1 January, 1 May, Elisabeth Michiels AND ST. PAUL’S CHURCHES Ascention Day, 1 November, 25 [email protected] December T +32 (0)3 213 99 51 Rubens’ talents as an ecclesiastical Exceptionally open on Easter baroque architect are clearly visible Monday and Whit Monday OPENING HOURS in these two churches. Mon - Fri: 10 am - 5 pm TICKETS Sat: 10 am - 3 pm PRACTICAL INFORMATION Individual: 8 EURO Sun & bank holidays: 1 pm - 4 pm Concessions, trade and groups of 12 MONUMENTAL CHURCHES or more: 6 EURO TICKETS ANTWERP AUDIO GUIDE: Available in Dutch, Individual: 6 EURO French, English, German and Trade: 4 EURO www.mkaweb.be Spanish, and can be obtained at reception for 2 EURO ST. CHARLES BORROMEO Hendrick Conscienceplein 12 ST. JAMES’S CHURCH Antwerp
THE CATHEDRAL OF This is where the artist was laid ST PAUL CHURCH OUR LADY to rest. Rubens chose the painting Sint-Paulusstraat 22 for the altar: his own “Our Lady Antwerp Four masterpieces by Rubens surrounded by the saints.” TRADE CONTACT are on permanent display. Eight Marieke D’Hooghe altarpieces from the collection of PRACTICAL INFORMATION marieke.d’[email protected] the Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp are the highlights of the MONUMENTAL CHURCHES ANTWERP exhibition Reunion. www.mkaweb.be From Quinten Metsijs to Peter Paul Rubens. Until end of 2018. ST JAMES CHURCH Lange Nieuwstraat 73 PRACTICAL INFORMATION Antwerp
CATHEDRAL TRADE CONTACT OF OUR LADY Marieke D’Hooghe Groenplaats 21, Antwerp marieke.d’[email protected]
25 26 EXPERIENCE THE WORLD OF BRUEGEL 2019
WHILE VERY LITTLE IS KNOWN ABOUT THE LIFE OF PIETER BRUEGEL THE ELDER, MUCH CAN BE DEDUCED BY STUDYING HIS PAINTINGS AND BY LOOKING BACK AT THE TIMES HE LIVED IN. HE WAS A HIGHLY INVENTIVE ARTIST, WHO PROFOUNDLY INFLUENCED THE IMAGINATIONS AND PERCEPTIONS OF SUCCEEDING GENERATIONS.
27 BRUSSELS AND ITS SURROUNDINGS WERE AN INSPIRATION TO BRUEGEL, AS MOST OF HIS PAINTINGS WERE CREATED THERE. AN ENTIRE FLOOR OF THE BRUEGEL VISITORS’ CENTRE WILL SHOW A PAINTER’S ATELIER OF THE TIME AND THE ARTISTS’ WORKING METHODS.
28 THE ENIGMA OF PIETER Giulio Clovio when in Rome, Museum of Fine Arts in Brus- BRUEGEL THE ELDER for three paintings by him sels, while the iconic painting were listed in the latter’s will ‘The Dulle Griet’ (Mad Meg) can The reality is we know very of 1578. Sadly none of these be viewed in the Mayer van little about his life with works have survived. den Bergh Museum in Ant- certainty, and this makes him werp. This museum also owns a truly enigmatic figure. He Around 1554 Bruegel returned the 12 hand-painted wooden was obviously fascinated by to Antwerp, probably by plates by Bruegel, each depict- nature, humanity and humour, way of the Alps. This jour- ing a well-known proverb. and therefore doesn’t quite ney resulted in a number of fit the mould as this or that exquisite mountain landscape FAMILY LIFE ‘type’ of artist. drawings. These sketches, IN BRUSSELS Two early sources suggest which formed the basis for that Bruegel was most likely many of his later paintings, In 1563, Bruegel moved to born between the years of were not records of actual Brussels to be closer to the 1525 and 1530 for it is recorded places but “composites” made centre of money, power and that he became a free mas- in order to study the organic potential clients. It was a hub ter in the Guild of St Luke, life of forms in nature. for artists and the new urban Antwerp in 1551. This leads us nobility. In the same year, to conclude that he probably AN ARTIST BY TRADE he married Mayken Coecke, served his apprenticeship with daughter of Pieter Coecke and the master craftsman and From the mid-16th century Mayken Verhulst, in Brussels’ well-known tapestry designer, onwards, Bruegel began to be Notre-Dame de la Chapelle architect and sculptor, Pieter more professionally active. By Church, and lived nearby. This Coecke van Aelst between 1552, he had established his area was a particularly pros- 1545 and 1550. It was perhaps first contacts with the print perous neighbourhood in the during this apprenticeship publisher Hieronymus Cock 16th-century and not far from that Coecke’s wife, Mayken and it is from this epoch that Charles V’s main residence Verhulst, might have trained we have his earliest surviving at the Coudenberg Palace at him as a manuscript illumi- drawings which can still be Mont des Arts. nator. seen today: the collection of Bruegel’s graphic production Bruegel died in 1569 and is THE GUILD which is kept by the Royal buried in the same church in OF SAINT LUKE Library of Belgium, ranks as which he married, the No- among the richest world-wide. tre-Dame de la Chapelle, near It is also home to a collection the Sablon in Brussels. Both Membership of the Guild of about 90 rare high-quality of Saint Luke in Antwerp of Bruegel’s sons, Pieter (the prints as well as three master Younger) and Jan (the Elder), will certainly have exposed drawings by Bruegel himself. Bruegel to the influence of born in 1564 and 1568 respec- the local Romanists for whom tively, became notable artists It is understood that, on his in their own right. travel to Italy and apprecia- return from Italy, Bruegel tion of classical and humanist began to concentrate more on culture were essential. And so painting. To our knowledge, it is no surprise to find that around 40 oeuvres of his sur- he travelled to Italy around vive, and while they are now 1552 where he is known to scattered worldwide, four of have met the miniaturist them can be seen in the Royal
29 CELEBRATING THE LIFE AND TIMES OF BRUEGEL, 450 YEARS AFTER HIS DEATH.
2019 will be the year Flanders an urban dweller for most of his Professor Manfred Sellink (General celebrates the life and times of Pieter adult life, living first in Antwerp and director and head curator, Royal Bruegel, as it will be 450 years since then Brussels. With his powerful and Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp). Soon his death. An impressive series of iconic recreation of ‘everyday life’ after this exhibition, Flanders will exhibitions and events will showcase scenes, Pieter Bruegel the Elder is kick off a year- long series of events, to the world just what an exceptional largely responsible for the creation celebrating one of its most iconic artist he was, and how influential he of Flanders’ national psyche and painters. was during his lifetime. collective consciousness as hard working yet bon vivants. The first series of activities will An astonishingly inventive painter start in the springtime of 2019 in and draughtsman, Bruegel frequently From October 2018 to January 2019, Brussels and its surroundings, then in depicted rural life, as experienced an outstanding monograph exhibition autumn the focus will be on Antwerp. by the common man, reminding dedicated to the artist will be held Exhibitions in Gaasbeek Castle us just how colourful life was in at the Kunsthistorisches Museum in and Bokrijk will provide a unique those days. “Peasant Bruegel” as he Vienna. This exhibition is the result experience in a more rural, green has been called, did not live in the of a joint research project between environment. countryside at all and was actually several leading curators including
30 BRUSSELS BRUSSELS ANTWERP EXHIBITIONS REGION EXHIBITIONS BRUEGEL IN BLACK EXHIBITIONS BRUEGEL’S BOOMING ANTWERP 2019 AND WHITE FEAST OF FOOLS: ROYAL MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS ROYAL LIBRARY OF BELGIUM BRUEGEL ANTWERP (KMSKA) BACK TO BRUEGEL REDISCOVERED THE COMEBACK OF BRUEGEL’S EXPERIENCE THE 16TH GAASBEEK CASTLE MAD MEG PERMANENT CENTURY THE WORLD OF MUSEUM MAYER VAN DEN OFFER ROYAL MUSEUMS OF ART BRUEGEL BERGH AND HISTORY BOKRIJK. 2ND LARGEST BERNARD VAN ORLEY: THE BRUEGEL’S GAZE: COLLECTION ROAD TO BRUEGEL (RE)CONSTRUCTION OF WORLDWIDE OF BOZAR A LANDSCAPE BRUEGEL’S WORKS ST. ANNA PEDE ROYAL MUSEUMS OF FINE ARTS OF BELGIUM
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EXPERIENCE BRUEGEL IN BRUSSELS SPRING 2019 BRUEGEL IN the wall, but that’s not how it was in T + 32 (0)2 519 55 96 BLACK AND WHITE Bruegel’s day. In Bruegel’s time they would hang his latest prints against OPENING HOURS ROYAL LIBRARY OF BELGIUM the wall or put them on the table FROM 1 MARCH TO 30 JUNE and encourage family and friends to Mon - Sun: 10 am - 5 pm Did you know that Bruegel was more examine them and offer their opinions. Closed: 1st May prolific as a printmaker than as a Thanks to specially designed cases TICKETS painter? During his lifetime he designed for this exhibition visitors can take We strongly recommend you order some sixty prints which spread his their places at a ‘Bruegellian’ dinner tickets online through a special website fame across the globe. These multiples table and give their thoughts on the (pre-sale will be available 2 months in in black and white where very popular work. When they leave, the visitors advance). All visits will be organised but have become very rare and fragile will no longer know Bruegel only as by timeslots. No guided tours will be after more than four centuries. The the painter of the ‘Peasant Wedding’, organised during the exhibition. Special Royal Library has a complete and but as the artist with an extraordinary expert conferences (50 min) for groups unparalleled collection of Bruegel’s imagination. are offered in combination with a prints in black & white. These unique visit. Please contact the reservations drawings will be exclusively taken out A New Royal location: a stately department for more info. Groups of storage during a special exhibition. edifice with a marble rotunda and are allowed to bring their own guide. magnificent frescoes, the Palace of Audio guides will be available in NL-FR- This exhibition gives you an insight Charles de Lorraine is one of Brussels’ EN-GER-IT-SP in the life and work of Bruegel. Be few 18th century treasures. It is an inspired by his great drawings and integral part of the Royal Library and TRAIN: Brussels Central station make your own artwork, or discover is well worth a visit in its own right. (Gare Centrale) how Bruegel’s images were printed METRO: lines 1 to 5 (Parc or Gare on a 16th century press. Thanks to PRACTICAL INFORMATION Centrale) advanced imaging techniques this TRAM: lines 92-94 (stop: Royale) exhibition will show how Bruegel www.kbr.be/en BUS: lines 27 - 38 - 71 - 95 (stop: created these fascinating images. You Royale); lines 29 - 63 - 65 - 66 (stop: can experience the creative process ROYAL LIBRARY OF BELGIUM Parc or Gare Centrale) from the first sketch on paper up to Kunstberg 4 , 1000 Brussels CAR PARKS: Albertine (Rue des Sols & the finished prints. Place de la Justice); Parking 2 Portes TRADE CONTACT (Rue de Namur & Blvd de Waterloo); Today, we are accustomed to seeing Jolien Pardon Parking Poelaert (Place Poelaert) prints neatly framed and hung on [email protected]
31 BACK TO BRUEGEL Also closed at 2 pm on 24 and 31 Ravensteinstraat 23, EXPERIENCE THE 16TH December 1000 Brussels TRAIN: Bruxelles-Midi/Brussel-Zuid CENTURY (walking distance) TRADE CONTACT METRO: 2, 6: Station Porte de Eléonore Duchêne HALLE GATE (ROYAL MUSEUMS OF Halle/Hallepoort [email protected] ART AND HISTORY) TRAM: 3, 55, 90: Station Porte de T +32 (0)2/507 83 68 Halle/Hallepoort Built in 1381, the mythical Halle BUS: 48, 136, 137, 365 Station at [email protected] Gate, part of the second set of Porte de Halle/Hallepoort T +32 (0)2/507 83 36 defensive walls that enclosed Brussels, opens a virtual door into OPENING HOURS Bruegel’s universe. Visitors will SPRING 2019 discover the 16th century, a century Tue - Sun: 10 am - 6 pm marked not only by religious wars BERNARD VAN Thu: 10 am - 9 pm and religious battles, but also by ORLEY: THE ROAD the discovery of the new world, the TO BRUEGEL Visiting the Centre for Fine Arts rise of cities and the flourishing of in a group offers personalised humanism: all in a unique building BOZAR (CENTRE FOR FINE ARTS) information and a free visitors that Bruegel himself will have seen guide provided booking is made daily and passed through while he Bernard van Orley (1488-1541) in advance (within the context lived and worked in Brussels. owned one of the largest of special offers), easy terms and ateliers of his era and played a reduced price tickets for all events Thanks to virtual reality fundamental role in the artistic and guided tours of exhibitions; technology, visitors will be carried life of Brussels in the first half of on an astonishing journey into the 16th century. He is therefore ATTENTION the heart of the paintings of considered an important link The Centre for Fine Arts does not Bruegel the Elder. Discover the 16th between the Flemish Primitives allow outside guides/speakers. century thanks to an exhibition and Pieter Bruegel the Elder. filled with the most remarkable RATES items from the Brussel Royal With this exhibition on Van For one guide: 77 - 97 EURO Museum of Art and History. At Orley, Brussels will host a long- (weekends and evening visits); Max the top of the building, with a anticipated world premiere, 15 pers./guide marvellous view over Brussels, as for both historical and take a look through the virtual logistical reasons Brussels is PARKING FOR COACHES: rue reality viewfinders and discover the only location where a large Cardinal Mercier / Kardinaal Brussels in the sixteenth century. retrospective of this Flemish Mercierstraat Back to Bruegel: discovering history master can be achieved. by a combination of advanced technology and exceptional As his work is still on display in artefacts. many churches and collections In 2019 various organisations will in and around Brussels, visitors PRACTICAL INFORMATION offer guided walks, musical events, will be able to follow an itinerary cultural happenings, historical connecting the Brussels’ city www.kmkg-mrah.be parades around the popular centre to the European quarter Marolles area and all over the city and the Brussels Cinquantenaire Halle Gate (Royal Museums centre, highlighting many of the Museum. An illustrated city map locations related to Bruegel and the of Art and History) will guide the visitor through Zuidlaan 150, 1000 Brussels fascinating period during which he Brussels and allows them to lived. It’s an excellent opportunity admire the works of the Flemish to come and (re)discover Bruegel’s TRADE CONTACT masters in their original setting. Sophie T’Kint world and his work in the historic heart of Brussels. [email protected] This project is organised in T +32 (0)2 533 34 51 collaboration with the Royal PRACTICAL INFORMATION Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium, OPENING HOURS the Royal Museums of Art and SPRING 2019 VISIT BRUSSELS History and the Royal Institute www.visitbrussels.be Mo - Thu: 10 am - 6 pm for Cultural Heritage. Sat - Sun and feast-days: TRADE CONTACT 10 am - 5 pm PRACTICAL INFORMATION Closed Fridays, 1 January, 1 May, 1 Pieter Callebaut and 11 November and 25 December. [email protected] www.bozar.be T +32 (0)2/549 50 52 NOTE: ticket-office closes at 4 pm BOZAR (Centre for fine Arts) (5pm weekends).
32 ROYAL MUSEUMS OF FINE ARTS OF BELGIUM
From the 15th to the 18th century: the Old Masters collection takes the visitor through 400 years of art history thanks to exceptional works that tell unique stories from the past. Visitors here can admire the second largest collection of Bruegel paintings and drawings in the world. Right next to it, famous masterpieces by Rubens or Jordaens and rare works from major artists such as Van der Weyden, Bouts, Memling, Bosch and Van Dyck are also on show. The Museum offers everyone the chance to immerse themselves in Bruegel's masterpieces, by drawing on a wide spectrum of virtual and onsite experiences:
BRUEGEL floor to ceiling with the help of a PRACTICAL INFORMATION UNSEEN MASTERPIECES sophisticated system of projectors and ultra-high resolution images. www.fine-arts-museum.be/en ROYAL MUSEUMS OF FINE ARTS OF BELGIUM In the “Bruegel Box”, spectators are ROYAL MUSEUMS able to rub shoulder-to-shoulder with OF FINE ARTS Twelve of Bruegel’s masterpieces, the villagers of Bruegel’s “Proverbs” OF BELGIUM to be found in some of the most (1559), come face-to-face with the Regentschapsstraat 3, 1000 Brussel prestigious museums in the world, palm reader in the Sermon of Saint are presented in high-definition detail John the Baptist (1566) or experience TRADE CONTACT thanks to technology provided by the The Fall of the Rebel Angels (1562) Laurence Ryckaert Google Cultural Institute. Drawing on as if they were there. Following the [email protected] a wide spectrum of virtual and on-site immersive experience in the ‘Box’, T +32 (0)2 508 33 33 / +32 (0)2 508 34 52 experiences, this unique initiative visitors will then be able to admire the offers visitors the chance to immerse original ‘Fall of the Rebel Angels’ as it OPENING HOURS themselves in Bruegel’s works by can be seen on the first floor of the Tue - Fri: 10 am - 5 pm honing in on the finer elements of Old Masters collection of the Royal Sat - Sun: 11 am - 6 pm each painting, and accessing expert Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium. knowledge. Closed Mondays and 1st and 2nd Experience more: of January, 1st May and 1st and 11th By delving deeper into the artist’s Nineteen virtual exhibitions exploring November and 25th December. world, the viewer will discover the the painter’s masterpieces and unexpected elements in Bruegel’s documenting his life, influences and TICKETS works that constitute the pinnacle of legacy are now available for all to see Adult: 10 EURO the Flemish master’s craft. So while on g.co/UnseenMasterpieces. At the Senior (+65 years): 8 EURO the artist and his paintings may be Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium, Youth (6-25 years), teacher, disabled instantly recognisable, every painting 12 of these multimedia exhibitions are and companion: 4 EURO has a whole host of characteristics presented on interactive terminals. Friend of the Museums, ICOM - some familiar, others surprising member, child (- 6 years): FREE - that are masterpieces worthy of Using a smartphone to plunge the REDUCED TRADE FEE: 8 EURO exploration in their own right. viewer into a 360-degree universe, the Google Cardboard virtual reality TICKET SALES viewer provides another cutting-edge At the Museums ticketing desk or BRUEGEL BOX way to experience The Fall of the [email protected] Rebel Angels. This virtual reality view This intriguing art experience lets is available on the YouTube channel ACTIVITIES AND RESERVATIONS visitors discover the secrets to be of the Royal Museums of Fine Arts Guided tours, slow art, workshops, etc. found in Bruegel’s most famous of Belgium. Viewers can see how the T. +32 (0)2 508 33 33 masterpieces. In one of the museum’s painting comes to life in front of their [email protected] rooms, fascinating videos - each eyes, and how they too can feel as dedicated to a Bruegel painting though they were walking amongst - are projected on three walls, one of Bruegel’s illustrious creatures.
33 BRUEGEL’S NEW VISITOR CENTRE This house will provide visitors with an authentic 16th century experience including a painter’s atelier. An OPENING SPRING 2019 entire floor, full of natural light, will be dedicated to Bruegel’s working methods. The original environment To mark the 450th anniversary of Pieter Bruegel’s death will be recreated through virtual and augmented reality in 2019, the Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium tools, along with sensorial experiences that make the will open a Bruegel visitors’ centre in an original 16th experience unique. century house in Brussels’ city centre. The house is also within easy walking distance of the Explore the world of Bruegel, go back in time to walk Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium and its 16th- his streets, visit the church where he married and century art collection (Bruegel the Elder, Bruegel the was buried, discover through the means of digital Younger, Pieter Coecke Van Aelst, Frans Floris, Joachim tools where he found inspiration and enjoy culinary Patenier, …) and the Royal Library. specialties from the days of yore. PRACTICAL INFORMATION Participate in the daily life of the world renowned painter, learn about his family, his artistry and TRADE CONTACT profession. In our workshop we invite you to create Laurence Ryckaert your own artwork, prepare your own paint and print [email protected] your design on our press. T +32 (0)2 508 33 33 / +32 (0)2 508 34 52
The house in the Hoogstraat is the ideal location to TICKETS (tbc) display the history and art of Brussels’ from this period, Adult: 10 EURO particularly as Emperor Charles (Charles V) had made Senior (+65 years): 8 EURO Brussels his home, making it the powerful centre of his Youth (6-25 years), teacher, disabled and companion: 4 EURO vast empire “where the sun never set”. Friend of the Museums, ICOM member, child (- 6 years): FREE REDUCED TRADE FEE: 8 EURO
34 EXPERIENCE BRUEGEL IN THE ‘PAJOTTENLAND’ (THE COUNTRYSIDE AROUND BRUSSELS)
GAASBEEK CASTLE
Gaasbeek Castle lies about 8 miles (13 km) south west of Brussels and is Flanders’ most romantic castle, surrounded by dramatic park scenery. One of the estate’s crown jewels is its magnificent Museum Garden, boasting a dazzling amount of old fruit varieties and forgotten vegetables.
The castle is nested in the gently rolling hills of the bucolic Pajottenland, an authentic, idyllic landscape. This is where Bruegel’s most beautiful vistas have survived. It would be very difficult to find a better place for an exhibition on the Master’s rediscovery.
FEAST OF FOOLS: and the way he glorified landscapes TRADE CONTACT BRUEGEL REDISCOVERED and the rural life. Visitors can expect Nancy Verhulst a fascinating journey through the [email protected] The exhibition “Feast of Fools” castle’s labyrinth interiors, cleverly T +32 (0)2 531 01 44 celebrates a large number of 20th- enhanced by one of Berlin’s most century artists who rediscovered creative theatre companies, Rimini OPENING HOURS Bruegel and addresses the question Protokoll. FROM 6 APRIL TO 28 JULY 2019 why he became one of Flanders’ Tue - Sun: 10 am - 6 pm leading cultural icons. Internationally An added attraction is a visit to (last visit at 5 pm) renowned contemporary artists will the castle’s brasserie for a glass of Open on public holidays. also be interpreting his artistic legacy authentic artisan geuze, brewed just with both existing and new works. like it was in Bruegel’s time. Audio guides available in English, Dutch and French Visitors will be immersed in a game PRACTICAL INFORMATION of changing moods, not only with Tours can be booked by email: paintings but also music, literature www.kasteelvangaasbeek.be/en [email protected] and film. It’s a unique way of discovering Bruegel’s cynical humour, GAASBEEK CASTLE PARKING: parking is available for 350 his caricatures and hidden messages, Kasteelstraat 40, cars, 4 busses 1750 Gaasbeek
35 BRUEGEL’S EYE: CAR: Brussels Ring Road, Exit 11 PRACTICAL INFORMATION RECONSTRUCTING THE (Groot-Bijgaarden), 12, 13 (Dilbeek centre) and 14 (Anderlecht); parking www.bokrijk.be LANDSCAPE available. PUBLIC TRANSPORT: from Brussels BOKRIJK Although not very much is known South station to Anderlecht, Sint-Guido Bokrijklaan 1, 3600 Genk about his life and method, it is metro and connection with De Lijn generally assumed that Pieter Bruegel bus 118, or De Lijn bus 118 directly from TRADE CONTACT the Elder ‘composed’ his landscapes Brussels South station to Saint Anna- An Tournelle with elements from the rural, slightly Pede (ca. 30`). [email protected] undulating Pajottenland district. An TAXI: 15 minutes from the Centre of T +32 (011) 26 53 94 attempt is made to follow the painter’s Brussels to the site of Saint Anne-Pede eye on the landscape and look at it the BICYCLES: available for hire: OPENING HOURS way he did. A visitor’s tour beckons www.villo.be (Erasmus Hospital) FROM 4 APRIL - 30 OCTOBER 2019 us to experience the Brabantine Tue - Sun: 10 am - 6 pm landscape in the surroundings of Visits with guides (ENG, FR, GER) Brussels as he did in the 16th century. It is a once-in-a-lifetime, breath- TICKETS taking exhibition of contemporary THE WORLD OF BRUEGEL Adult: 12,5 EURO artists who catapult Bruegel to the Child (3-12): 2 EURO Located just 60 minutes from 21st century. Bruegel was a masterly 60+: 10,5 EURO landscape painter. He surprises the Brussels, Bokrijk offers a wide variety of monumental heritage, viewer with unique perspectives, TOUROPERATORS: unspoiled natural vegetation and harmonious landscape compositions B2C offer: 10 EURO countless recreational opportunities and ostensibly corporeal decors. This B2B offer: 8,5 EURO exhibition reinterprets the landscape such as the arboretum, bicycle- theme and follows in the footsteps and hiking trails and the outdoor of the master himself. A bicycle and playground as an oasis for children’s walking tour of 12 and 33 kilometres fun. With 120 historic buildings, CYCLING TOUR IN connects 12 unique installations, daily-life objects and activities in a interventions and settings. The tour truly idyllic landscape, the open-air THE PAJOTTENLAND starts and ends at two buildings museum is Bokrijk’s beating heart. that were painted by Bruegel: the A special Bruegel cycle route Church of Saint Anna-Pede, featured In the scenery of Bokrijk, Bruegel’s has been prepared taking in Bruegel’s “The Parable of the Blind” paintings will be brought to life. you past Gaasbeek Castle and (1568) and the watermill of Saint In several indoor and outdoor St-Anna-Pede church, as well Gertrudis-Pede, which is depicted in locations throughout this ‘bruegelian’ as the lush green landscape “The Magpie on the Gallows” (1568). landscape, the visitor will discover, that Bruegel depicted in his see, hear, feel, smell and taste life as paintings. The start of the PRACTICAL INFORMATION it was in Bruegel’s time, yet from a route is only a short metro 6 MONTHS (27 APRIL – 27 OCTOBER 2019) present-day perspective. ride away from Brussels city CHURCH OF SAINT ANNA-PEDE What’s more, visitors will get the centre. 176 Herdebeekstraat, 1701 Dilbeek. unique opportunity to enter the world of Pieter Bruegel the Elder. Bicycles are available for hire: PEDEMOLEN Even though Bruegel’s work might be www.villo.be, Erasmus Hospital 84 Lostraat, 1703 Dilbeek. hundreds of years old, it still exhibits bike station. humour, symbolism and hidden tales Free admission relevant to the visitor today.
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36 EXPERIENCE BRUEGEL IN ANTWERP AUTUMN 2019
BRUEGEL’S BOOMING and the Southern Netherlands at the Bruegel the Elder to be shown at the ANTWERP time of Bruegel. During this period, Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna, Antwerp lived a ‘Golden Age’. It was a from October 2018 to January 2019, in ROYAL MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS time when the city grew at breakneck which the Royal Museum of Fine Arts ANTWERP (KMSKA) pace to become the most dynamic Antwerp is closely involved. and cosmopolitan commercial city in The Royal Museum of Fine Arts Northern Europe. PRACTICAL INFORMATION Antwerp (KMSKA) will open its doors FROM 26 OCTOBER 2019 again in Autumn 2019, following the With around 120 objects on TILL 26 JANUARY 2020 most ambitious renovation in its show, visitors will be able to see a history. Within one building, visitors kaleidoscope of artifacts of the highest ROYAL MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS will find two completely different level in all genres and techniques: ANTWERP worlds: the royal spaces of the 19th paintings, sculptures, drawings Leopold de Waelplaats 2, Antwerp century museum that have been and prints; tapestries, manuscripts www.kmska.be returned to their original splendour, and printed illustrated, crafts and and a brand new 21st century architecture. The exhibition features TRADE CONTACT museum that is vertical in shape. work by a variety of world-renowned Birgit Pluvier The change will give the museum artists who made the 16th century one [email protected] 40% more exhibition space for its of the most culturally influential periods +32 (0)3 224 95 67 vast collection. It also is a rethink of ever. An era that holds learnings and what the contemporary museum is: a insights still relevant to today’s viewers. TICKETS dynamic space for both reflection and Individual: 18 EURO entertainment, bringing themes to life A must see: Bruegel’s Booming Antwerp Groups (> 15 people): 12 EURO through a contemporary lens. will combine famous masterpieces Under 18 years, from museums in Europe and the USA, Antwerp City Card: 0 EURO Its first major exhibition will be with new discoveries and insights Bruegel’s Booming Antwerp. This resulting from years of research. This GUIDED TOURS exhibition will give an overview of exhibition is a direct sequel to the [email protected] the artistic production in Antwerp monographic exhibition about Pieter or +32 (0)3 224 95 61
37 ‘MAD MEG’ (DULLE GRIET) IS AN ‘APOCALYPTIC’ AND ‘VOLCANIC’ NARRATIVE PAINTING AND RATHER LIKE ITS AUTHOR, HAS KEPT ITS SECRETS WELL LOCKED UP FOR PRECISELY WHAT IT MEANS REMAINS A MYSTERY. IT IS FULL OF MISSHAPEN MONSTERS AND A WOMAN GIRDED IN ARMOUR STRIDES FORTH WITH A SWORD IN HER HANDS: THIS IS MAD MEG, A SYNONYM IN BRUEGEL’S TIME FOR A HELLCAT.
THE COMEBACK OF BRUEGEL’S MAD MEG
MUSEUM MAYER VAN DEN BERGH PRACTICAL INFORMATION
In ‘The comeback of Bruegel’s Mad Meg’ one of Pieter www.museummayervandenbergh.be Bruegel’s most famous paintings, ‘Dulle Griet’ (Mad Meg) will be shown in all details. Thanks to new research MUSEUM MAYER VAN DEN BERGH and a thorough restoration of Dulle Griet, this exhibition Lange Gasthuisstraat 19, Antwerp will further reveal hidden secrets about the mystery that surrounds Bruegel and his early work in Antwerp. Detailed program will be online from December 2017 at: www.visitantwerpen.be/bruegel The exhibition is part of the year-round theme celebrating Pre-sale ticketing for trade organisations from November the life and work of Bruegel taking place in various 2017 at www.visitantwerpen.be/bruegel locations in Antwerp, including Museum Mayer van den Bergh, Royal Museum of Fine Arts, Snijders&Rockox House TRADE CONTACT and elsewhere in the city. [email protected] T +32 (0)3 338 81 88
OPENING HOURS 5 OCTOBER 2019 - 26 JANUARY 2020 Tue-Fri : 10 am - 8 pm Sat-Sun: 10 am - 8 pm Closed Mondays, 11 November and 25 December
TICKETS Individual: 10 EURO Concessions, trade and groups of 12 or more: 8 EURO Under 12 years: free
38 IN VIENNA
FLEMISH MASTERS ON TOUR VISITFLANDERS & KHM cooperation
Beginning in 2017, the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna will host a series of seminal exhibitions focusing on Flemish art and culture. Visitors can enjoy the pictorial worlds of Rubens and Bruegel in Vienna, or travel to Flanders to see where they lived and worked! Flemish masters on tour is a collaboration between the Kunsthistorisches Museum Vienna and VISITFLANDERS.
In the second half of 2017, the exhibition will bring together artist - whose works fetched Kunsthistorisches Museum the Kunsthistorisches Museum exceptionally high prices - will honour PETER PAUL collection and numerous during his lifetime. Only about RUBENS, the most important international loans. 40 paintings and 60 prints and of all Flemish baroque painters, drawings by him have survived. with a splendid exhibition. In 2018 art lovers everywhere The 12 panel paintings in the The Picture Gallery of the can look forward to a very Kunsthistorisches Museum Kunsthistorisches Museum special treat: from 2 October represent the world’s largest houses around 40 paintings 2018 until 13 January 2019, the collection of works by by the celebrated artist and Kunsthistorisches Museum Bruegel, and, together with his workshop, among them Vienna presents the first numerous international masterpieces like “The Fur”, comprehensive monograph loans from museums and “Head of Medusa”, his late exhibition of the work of PIETER private collections in Europe self-portrait, and the huge BRUEGEL THE ELDER (1525/30- and America, they will form altarpieces commissioned for 1563) to commemorate the 450th the core of this spectacular the Jesuit church in Antwerp. anniversary of his death. exhibition celebrating an Focusing on the Master’s exceptional artist. creativity and his sources of Pieter Bruegel the Elder inspiration, the spectacular was a much sought-after
MORE INFORMATION ON THE KUNSTHISTORISCHES MUSEUM VIENNA: WWW.KHM.AT
39 40 2020 THE GHENT ALTARPIECE IS COMING HOME
SINCE ITS COMPLETION IN 1432, MILLIONS OF VISITORS FROM ALL OVER THE WORLD HAVE TRAVELLED TO GHENT TO ADMIRE THE GHENT ALTARPIECE, PAINTED BY JAN AND HUBERT VAN EYCK. LOST, STOLEN IN THE COURSE OF SEVERAL WARS, PUT AT RISK BY FIRE, DISMANTLED, COPIED, SMUGGLED, CENSORED, ATTACKED BY ICONOCLASTS, HIDDEN, RANSOMED, RESCUED AND STOLEN TIME AND AGAIN… NO WORK OF ART HAS BEEN SO VULNERABLE AND YEARNED FOR AS MUCH AS THE MYSTIC LAMB.
41 UNMATCHED VIRTUOSITY A COVETED MASTERPIECE occurred on the 11th April 1934 WITH THE PAINTBRUSH when two panels from the work were stolen, one of “John the Baptist” and another of the “Just Jan van Eyck was a major figure in Jan’s most famous creation is the Judges”. A ransom of a million the painting revolution taking place Ghent Altarpiece “Adoration of Belgian Francs was demanded, in the Low Countries during the the Mystic Lamb”, made for Saint and in a show of good faith by early part of the 15th century. With Bavo’s Cathedral in Ghent. It is a the perpetrator, one of the panels, his precise observation and natural 12-panel polyptych that he worked that of “John the Baptist”, was rendering of reality, his brilliant use on together with his older brother returned, but no money was ever of colours and mastery of oils - a Hubert, also a painter. Jan finished paid. So sadly the last piece of the technique he perfected - van Eyck the commission in 1432 following puzzle is still missing. took painting to new heights. His Hubert’s death in 1426. It was the employer, the Duke of Burgundy most famous oil painting of the At STAM, the Ghent city museum, (Philip the Good), ensured that he epoch. visitors will be able to track the was well paid and able to paint theft of the Ghent Altarpiece “whenever he pleased”. He was Since its first viewing in 1432, the side panels, and try to work out also asked to handle a number of magnificent altarpiece, measuring where the missing panel: “The diplomatic visits, including one to 4.4m x 3.4m (14’5” x 11’2”) is Just Judges” is to be found. The Lisbon in 1428 to arrange the Duke’s considered one of the world’s mystery continues, with the hunt forthcoming marriage with Isabella finest art treasures. Unfortunately for the missing panel still very of Portugal. it has been the victim of 13 crimes and seven thefts since much alive. its installation. The latest theft
42 FOR MORE THAN FOUR HUNDRED YEARS, WE HAVEN’T THE RESTORATION ACTUALLY BEEN VIEWING THE OF THE GHENT REAL GHENT ALTARPIECE ALTARPIECE.
Commissioned by the merchant, that large parts of the work were certain areas of the panels. The financier and politician, Jodocus painted over during a previous, colours, details, folds and depth Vijd, then the equivalent of 17th century restoration. That was that have been revealed are of the mayor of Ghent, the Ghent the accepted way of restoring a remarkable quality and perfectly Altarpiece was designed for the painting at the time. But the good match the style of van Eyck. This Vijd chapel in today’s Saint Bavo’s news is that the original layer is also explains why experts had Cathedral. It’s a work of art that still in good condition and so we previously grouped details of this has thrilled audiences ever since can, in principle, remove the top piece among some of van Eyck’s its creation in 1432. layer,” says Devolder, “and get to lesser work. “Now we know that the original underneath.” this is because the work of the THE LATEST IN A LONG real van Eyck has largely been Although in the world of hidden under newer layers of LINE OF RESTORATIONS restoration a conscious choice paint,” suggests Devolder. Further is sometimes made to keep the details, such as a spider’s web Since October 2012, Bart Devolder traces of time, the restorers are just above the heads of Joos Vijd has coordinated the restoration convinced that, in this case, and Elisabeth Borluut, have also project at the KIK (Royal Institute it is the right thing to do to recently been revealed during the for Cultural Heritage), a Belgian remove the top layer. “We have restoration. institution whose expertise is already made small windows in world-renowned. “We discovered
43 SEE THE RESTORERS AT WORK
Until the end of 2019, when connects the three important the restoration of the last locations: the Museum of panels will be complete and Fine Arts, the Caermers- put back in their original klooster (an old convent) place on display in St Bavo’s and the St Bavo’s Cathedral. Cathedral, visitors can visit the Museum of Fine Arts An exhibition on the work’s (MSK) in Ghent where the rich history, spanning almost Ghent Altarpiece is being six centuries, can be viewed at restored. Ghent’s Caermersklooster for the duration of the restoration A COMBI-TICKET FOR THE Visitors there will receive an period. The exhibition is called excellent insight into the ‘Het Lam Gods ont(k)leed!’ (The FOLLOWING THREE SITES painstaking and detailed Ghent Altarpiece Revealed). COSTS 12 EURO: work of the restoration. The The exhibition will be restorers are currently also supplemented with temporary present at the MSK every last exhibits focusing on specific - The Museum of Fine Wednesday of the month for themes, such as the origin of Arts in Ghent (MSK) a Q&A session. Visitors may the wooden panels and the - The Caermersklooster also be interested to go on iconography of the work. the van Eyck walking tour of - St Bavo’s Cathedral 15th century Ghent, which
44 UNMISSABLE VAN EYCK EXPERIENCES UNIQUE JAN VAN EYCK EXHIBITION IN THE MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS IN GHENT OPEN FROM 1 FEBRUARY 2020 TO 10 MAY 2020.
Organised by the Museum of UNIQUE EXPERIENCE masterpieces by van Eyck, and Fine Arts, Ghent. The large-scale those of his contemporaries, in a Jan van Eyck exhibition will be The exhibition aims to create a once-in-a-lifetime experience. dedicated to the life and work of unique experience in which both the the Flemish master, Jan van Eyck. sumptuousness of the Burgundian PRACTICAL INFORMATION court and the flourishing urban The late medieval Low Countries culture are brought to life through www.mskgent.be presented a uniquely creative paintings, sculptures, drawings, [email protected] environment for artists and tapestries and miniatures. Each is artisan. The Court of the Duke an example of the extraordinarily MSK - the Museum of Fine Arts of Burgundy, Philip the Good, inventive imagination and the Fernand Scribedreef 1, attracted the most talented refined aesthetic appreciation of the 9000 Gent artists of the day, while the period. Interactive technology will be bustling urban centres offered employed within the exhibition to fertile ground for myriad artistic OPENING HOURS strengthen this relationship, and to FROM 1 FEBRUARY TO 10 MAY 2020 and artisanal endeavours. Jan underscore salient points. van Eyck was a particular ‘star’ Mon - Sun: 9 am - 6.30 pm at the time, being very much There will also be two late-night Visitors will be witness to openings per week until 10:30 pm. appreciated both as an artist and the most complete van Eyck designer, but also as an adviser exhibition ever staged: the outer TICKETS and diplomat. panels of the Ghent Altarpiece (tbc) will be exhibited alongside other
45 OPENING JUNE 2020: NEW ‘MYSTIC LAMB’ VISITORS’ CENTRE IN SAINT BAVO’S CATHEDRAL
A combination of original art trea- AUGMENTED REALITY This augmented reality tour sures and modern presentation around the cathedral will be techniques in the new Visitors’ The culturally interested tourist offered in nine different languag- Centre will be used to highlight will be able to see and appreciate es: the seven languages currently the story behind the centuries’ old the latest restoration campaign available on the audio guide, plus Russian and Portuguese, and be polyptych made by the van Eyck and learn about the remarkable customised for each language. brothers, “The Ghent Altarpiece”. history of the “Mystic Lamb” itself. On entering the centre, PRACTICAL INFORMATION The inauguration is scheduled to visitors will receive a set of augmented virtual reality (AVR) take place in June 2020 following glasses which will give them the www.sintbaafskathedraal.be the grand exhibition “Jan van chance to see medieval murals [email protected] Eyck and the Burgundian Court” and numerous works of art as if to be held in the Museum of Fine they were actually on site hun- ST BAVO’S CATHEDRAL Arts in Ghent and the Visitors’ dreds of years ago and done with Sint-Baafsplein Centre will highlight the multiple the help of historical simulations 9000 Gent messages conveyed by the polyp- and interactive modules. Visitors tych, including an explanation will get to experience the differ- OPENING HOURS THE VISITORS’ CENTRE OPENS of its religious significance and ent construction periods of the cathedral as well as the eventful IN JUNE 2020 art-historical value. Links will also Mon - Sun: 9.30 am - 5 pm be made to the architectural her- history of the “Mystic Lamb” and its significance in the most con- itage and its intimate connection vincing but historically correct TICKETS to the cathedral. manner. INDIVIDUAL: 12 EURO GROUP: 10 EURO
46 2018 - 2020 BRUGES, HOMETOWN OF THE FLEMISH PRIMITIVES
I SOMETIMES WONDER WHY PEOPLE FROM ALL CORNERS OF THE WORLD HAVE ALWAYS FOUND THE FLEMISH PRIMITIVES SO ABSORBING. THE ANSWER PERHAPS LIES IN THE FACT THAT FOR THE VERY FIRST TIME IN ART HISTORY WE ARE CONFRONTED WITH RECOGNISABLE PEOPLE AND FAMILIAR OBJECTS THAT CORRESPOND TO TODAY’S REALITY. THE FLEMISH PRIMITIVES LAID THE FOUNDATION OF AN ARTISTIC CONCEPT THAT IN ITS REALISM IS PERFECTLY RECOGNISABLE AND THEREFORE UNDERSTANDABLE TO A MODERN-DAY OBSERVER. THE FLEMISH PRIMITIVES DISCOVERED THE INDIVIDUAL. QUITE A FEAT.
Till-Holger Borchert, Director of Musea Brugge
47 THE GOLDEN AGES OF BRUGES: THE FLOURISHING OF THE FLEMISH PRIMITIVES
Bruges is the city of Jan van Eyck: Flemish Masters would follow to the cultural history of Bruges. the legendary and enigmatic live in Bruges or worked for Bruges’ inventor of oil-painting lived and clients and the Flemish Primitives To this day many of their world- worked in the city from 1432 made names for themselves. One renowned artworks can be until his death in 1441. In the 15th of the admirers was, without admired in the museums and century, Philip the Good, Duke doubt, Hans Memling, who was churches throughout the city of Burgundy, set up his court greatly influenced by Jan van where they can be experienced in in Bruges and invited artists to Eyck. Originally born in Germany, the unique context of an UNESCO come and work there. It was the Memling settled in Bruges in 1465 World Heritage city. Although beginning of Bruges’ golden age. In and became one of the most they were made more than half a 1432 Jan van Eyck settled as painter successful artists in this prosperous millennium ago, these paintings are to the court. All of his known town. The Flemish Primitives astonishingly well preserved and paintings were produced here. Jan flourished and left masterpieces colourful, and testify to the great van Eyck seems to have employed behind for posterity. Their artworks craftsmanship of their creators. all his skills to evoke admiration. that form the foundation of In his wake other prominent European painting are integral to
48 PERMANENT COLLECTIONS: A CELEBRATION OF THE FLEMISH MASTERS
No art lover visiting Belgium should miss Bruges’ Museums: the GroeningeMuseum and the historic Sint-Janshospitaal comprise a reference collection of Primitive paintings, that is unrivalled anywhere in the world, with masterpieces by Jan van Eyck, Hans Memling, Hugo van der Goes and Gerard David.
GROENINGEMUSEUM SINT-JANSHOSPITAAL
Jan van Eyck’s Portrait of the artist’s wife, The Sint-Janshospitaal was established kept in the Groeningemuseum, is not only in the early 12th century and has been one of the earliest female portraits in preserved remarkably well. It is a former European Art History, but one of the few pilgrim’s hospital with a chapel, which tangible documents of van Eyck’s private premises have been transformed into a life. Her image addresses the viewers by museum. Besides a presentation on the means of the inscription on the frame history, practice and culture of the clinic, as she seems to focus her gaze on the including medical objects and an intact 17th beholder. Jan van Eyck’s astonishing century pharmacy, its main attraction lies illusionistic talents are even more obvious in in a world famous ensemble of works by the Madonna of Canon Joris van der Paele, one of Bruges’ preeminent residents, the the largest single painting by the artist Flemish Primitive painter Hans Memling. known to us. Here, the face of an elderly canon are portrayed with painstaking OPENING HOURS ingenuity and all the painted surfaces are full of hidden reflections of the world in- Tue - Sun: 9.30 am - 5 pm and outside the panel. (Last tickets: 16.30 pm) Closed Mondays Hugo van der Goes’ Death of the Virgin is the only significant painting by the Open on Easter and Whit Mondays painter to remain in Belgium and fascinates Additional closing dates: 25 December because of its ingenious display of an and 1 January. Special rates for groups unnatural - a devine - light. of at least 15 persons.
49 After a 5 year renovation the museum and its rich collection of high quality artefacts will take you on a journey through the history of Bruges. The exhibits will include many masterpieces of craftsmanship, such as tapestries, lace, fine silverwork and woodcarving, but also high quality artefacts will take visitors on a journey, In this way, history is made truly tangible. But in the crown and perhaps the most intriguing piece of Burgundian heritage is the oratory. The private chapel, one of its kind, connected his stately palace with the Choir of the Church of Our Lady and allowed him to attend mass with a privileged view onto the altar. NEW IN SPRING 2019: RE-OPENING Furthermore, a brand new contemporary pavilion OF THE GRUUTHUSEMUSEUM will be created between the Gruuthusemuseum and the Onze-Lieve-Vrouwekerk. A gem of modern The Gruuthusemuseum is housed in what was once architecture in dialogue with two ancient monuments the city palace of the Burgundian knight Lodewijk will transform the courtyard into a new experience. of Gruuthuse, Lord of Bruges. His family fortune was The pavilion will not only function as a reception based on the sale of ‘gruut’, a mixture of herbs that place for this museum site, but will also function as was widely used for beer brewing. Lodewijk is the a connecting point for all the museums offering a most famous member of this distinguished family and multimedia look on the different collections. was an important figure and confidant at the court of the dukes of Burgundy.
HIDDEN GEMS: FLEMISH PRIMITIVES IN THE CHURCHES AND CHAPELS OF BRUGES
While one can marvel at some of the world’s greatest masterpieces of the Flemish Primitives in Bruges’ museums, it is also worthwhile to discover the many hidden gems that Bruges has to offer. A great variety of paintings are still preserved in the Churches and chapels of Bruges that they had originally been commissioned for, offering a extraordinary experience for every art lover.
St Saviour’s Cathedral has amongst and posthumously finished by his its treasures a rood loft with an workshop as well as Hugo van der AN IDEAL WAY TO organ, medieval tombs, Brussels Goes. Here it remains one of the DISCOVER THE MUNICIPAL tapestries and a rich collection highlights of the treasury alongside MUSEUMS THROUGH THE of Flemish paintings (14th-18th the altarpiece of the Tanners’ guild MUSEUM PASS. century). The treasure-chamber of around 1410, arguably one of the displays, amongst others, a earliest surviving panel painting in The card gives you access triptych begun by Dieric Bouts Bruges. to all 14 sites of “Musea Brugge” for 3 consecutive days.
12-25 years: 20 EURO 26+ years: 28 EURO (prices 1/1/2018) Special group rate is available upon request.
50 The Church of our Lady, perhaps scenes from the Legend of Saint app to experience heritage trails best known for its Madonna Lucy. The panel was painted by an in Bruges. This one app allows by Michelangelo as well as the anonymous 15th century master you to download themed routes, funerary monuments of Charles who - after this work - was named museum routes and city walks, the Bold and Mary of Burgundy the Master of the Lucy-Legend. most of them in five languages also hosts remarkably painted (Dutch, French, English, German masterpieces of the Burgundian and Spanish). times, including a monumental Next to the St James tour the app triptych of the Crucifixion of THE HIDDEN TREASURES also offers the outdoor walks: 1534 from the Brussels court- OF SAINT JAMES’: ‘Bruges, anno 1562’ and ‘Hans painter Barend van Orley. Home DIGITAL TOUR Memling in Burgundian Bruges’ and to some of the most prestigious an indoor tour that focuses on the confraternities in Late Medieval Since the centre of Bruges is home unique collection of seven works Bruges, the Church of Our Lady still to many religious institutions with of Memling at Saint John’s Hospital contains the Transfiguration by interesting heritage collections, and Groeningemuseum. Gerard David, the Seven Sorrows of including seven historic churches, the Virgin made in 1521 by David’s the Xplore Bruges app has been www.xplorebruges.be collaborator Adriaen Isenbrandt extended to include the ‘The as well as several altarpieces by hidden treasures of St James’ Pieter Pourbus (1523-1585). Church’. Taking the visitors along 15 art treasures of this church, this A few steps away from the busy is the first free tour offered in a heart of the city lies Saint James’. historic church in Flanders. The This Gothic parish church also still tour is available in three languages: houses an impressive ensemble Dutch, French and English. of 15th and early 16th century paintings. The most important Xplore Bruges (Google Play or painting in Saint James’ depicts Apple Store) is the ultimate city
51 GUIDED VISITS
GUIDED WALKING TOUR: BRUGES, COMBITICKET HISTORIUM & HISTORIC CENTRE OF TRADE GROENINGEMUSEUM AND CULTURE INDIVIDUAL: 22,00 EURO From the 13th to the 15th century, Bruges was a TRADE PRICE: available on request centre of trade where traders from the Hanseatic cities of the Far North, England and Germany (who HISTORIUM BRUGGE were then called Easterlings) and important places of trade in France, Spain and Italy came together. You can experience what it was like to live in Bruges The walk carves a path along the stone reminders of during the Golden Age in the Historium. Historium Bruges’ Golden Age. shows visitors what it was like to live in medieval Bruges during the Golden Age, from the atmosphere This two-hour walking tour is conducted by a of the harbour and the cobbled streets to the qualified guide. One guide does not take more than workshop of van Eyck in a multi-sensory, interactive 25 persons. The price per guide amounts to 75 EURO experience. Or simply smile at the delicious scents per two-hour visit and 37.50 EURO per extra hour. and bawdy laughter coming from the bathhouse. (payment cash on the spot directly to the guide). Markt 1 te 8000 Brugge OTHER POPULAR TOURS: World Heritage walk (classic tour); a Jan van Eyck tour is in preparation. OPENING HOURS daily : 10.00 am – 6 pm A guided visit to the city’s museums during or after Tickets till 5 pm the walking tour is also possible. A visit to any of the museums takes at least one hour. If not pre-booked, Open on Sunday and festivity days entrance fees should be paid in cash on arrival. For reservations, contact the tourist office at least one GROENINGEMUSEUM week ahead of the visit, with details on the exact date and time, number of people and the meeting point. After having a look around in Jan van Eyck’s studio and seen where he painted the famous “Virgin and Child with Canon Van der Paele”, you can admire this wonderful work of art in the Groeningemuseum.
OPENING HOURS PRACTICAL INFORMATION: www.visitbruges.be Tue - Sun: 9.30 am - 5 pm (Last tickets: 4.30 pm) TRADE CONTACT: [email protected], Closed Mondays / Open on Easter and Whit Mondays [email protected], T +32 (0)50/44 46 46 Additional closing dates: 25 December and 1 January.
52 2018 - 2020 DISCOVER THE FLEMISH MASTERS OFF THE BEATEN TRACK
53 ADRIAEN BROUWER, (1606-1638)
15 SEPTEMBER 2018 - 16 DECEMBER 2018 OUDENAARDE
The city of Oudenaarde is organising an ambitious event and exhibition devoted to the painter Adriaen Brouwer (1605/06, Oudenaarde - 1638, Antwerp).
Between the 16th and the 18th acquainted with the work of this TICKETS Century, Oudenaarde was one forgotten Flemish master. INDIVIDUAL: 10 EURO of the most important tapestry GROUP: 8 EURO weaving centres in Flanders. It is Brouwer is an integral part of the GUIDED TOURS (2 h): 60 EURO generally accepted that Adriaen cultural identity of Oudenaarde TRADE: 7 EURO Brouwer was born in Oudenaarde, and Flanders; his name echoes most probably as the son of a in various products and events: OPENING HOURS tapestry designer. Adriaen Brouwer beer, Adriaen FROM 15 SEPTEMBER 2018 TO Brouwer pastry, Adriaen Brouwer 16 DECEMBER 2018 Brouwer was one of the most paths and tracks set in Flanders’ Tue - Sun: 9.30 - 6 pm creative and innovative artists of most beautiful landscape The Thu: open until 10 pm his time. He was highly regarded Flemish Ardennes. Closed Mondays. by contemporaries such as Rubens and Rembrandt. The The Brouwer exhibition and ACCESSIBILITY exhibition Adriaen Brouwer: encompassing project in Parking space for coaches near Master of Emotions will be the Oudenaarde will offer a varied the location first monographic show devoted selection of exquisite cultural to this exceptional artist. and gastronomic events. Guided tours and audio guides Moreover, the fact that a large available in five languages (Dutch, amount of the artist’s oeuvre will PRACTICAL INFORMATION French, English, German, Spanish) be gathered for the first time in Oudenaarde, the city in which www.mou-oudenaarde.be Restaurants and facilities are the artist was born, makes this a located around the market once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. MOU MUSEUM OF square (300 m) The exhibition specifically OUDENAARDE focuses on the Flemish mastery Markt 1, 9700 Oudenaarde and Brouwer’s important role as the successor of Pieter Bruegel TRADE CONTACT the Elder on one hand, and as Eva Roels a friend and contemporary of [email protected] Peter Paul Rubens on the other. T +32 (0)55 317 251 Visitors will get the unique opportunity to explore and get
54 M-TREASURY OF SAINT-PETER’S
GROTE MARKT 1, 3000 LEUVEN
Saint Peter’s Church is located in the heart of the city, with an entrance on the Grote Markt, directly opposite the city hall. It’s considered to be one of the finest examples of 15th century Brabantine High Gothic architecture. The restoration of Saint Peter’s Church will be completed in 2019. The perfect occasion to visit it and discover its art treasures. Two masterpieces by Dirk Bouts, one of the Flemish Primitives, are still located here, in the place for which they were originally intended, almost 600 years after their creation. Bouts was sometimes known as the painter of silence due to his characteristic style. He is the odd one among the Flemish Primitives because his paintings are not overly dramatic. Besides Bouts, Saint Peters’ possesses numerous statues, paintings and a collection of gold and silver pieces such as reliquaries, monstrances and chalices. The visit includes full digital access to the stories of the Flemish Master LEUVEN and the artworks. OPENING HOURS THE NEW VISITOR’S CENTRE OPENS IN SEPTEMBER 2019 Mon-Sat: 10 am - 4.30 pm Sun and public holidays: 11 am - 4.30 pm
Until september 2019: Mon-Sat:10 am - 4.30 pm Sun and public holidays: 11am - 4.30pm Closed on Wednesdays 01/10-31/03 Open on Wednesdays 01/04-30/09 www.mleuven.be
Visit to the Treasury of St-Peter’s are included with the entry tickets to M-Museum Leuven. Please note that the opening times of the treasury may differ from those of the museum.
55 M – MUSEUM LEUVEN
M - Museum Leuven houses an exciting and unique mix of historical and contemporary art in an impressive architectural setting, designed by the renowned Belgian architect Stéphane Beel. M offers a permanent collection and a mix of temporary exhibitions by old masters and contemporary artists.
PRACTICAL INFORMATION ILUVLEUVEN TICKET VISIT LEUVEN Discover the highlights of Leuven City tours, day trips and weekend Program and information with the ILUVLeuven ticket at an arrangements can be booked via the www.mleuven.be interesting rate. The ticket grants you Tourism Office: www.visitleuven.be a visit to: Have a look through the extensive M-MUSEUM LEUVEN - M-Museum Leuven range of guided tours for groups: Leopold Vanderkelenstraat 28 - M-Treasury of Saint Peter www.visitleuven.be/en/groups 3000 Leuven - Town hall (daily at 3 pm only) - University library & tower LEUVEN: ACCESSIBILITY GUIDED TOURS FOR GROUPS Trade price: 12 EURO | Price: 16 EURO www.visitleuven.be/en/accessibility- 65 EURO for the guide transport + 6 EURO per visitor ( > 15 people) TRADE CONTACT Parking for coaches: 65 EURO for the guide Saskia Verhaert / Annik Altruy www.visitleuven.be/en/coach + 8 EURO per visitor ( < 15 people) Visit Leuven Group costs based on a minimum of [email protected] 10 people. T + 32 (0)16 27 22 77
56 MECHELEN
MUSEUM OPENING HOURS BURGUNDIAN MECHELEN HOF VAN BUSLEYDEN MUSEUM HOF VAN BUSLEYDEN + MUSEUM HOF VAN OPENS IN MARCH 2018. BUSLEYDEN From 2018 onwards, in the Museum Hof van Busleyden in Mechelen, Mon-Fri: 10am-5pm Thu: 10am-10pm This tour combines the highlights visitors will have the opportunity to from the Burgundian era in the experience one of the most creative Sat-Sun: 10am-5pm Closed on Wednesday city with a visit of the highlights of periods in Flemish and European Museum Hof van Busleyden. history: the Burgundian Renaissance. TICKETS (tbc) During the 15th and 16th centuries, PRICE: 75 EURO Flanders enjoyed an unprecedented GROUP : 7 EURO TRADE : 6 EURO (maximum of 25 persons per guide) political, economic and cultural DURATION: 1,5h boom with figures such as Charles V, Daily, except Wednesdays Margaret of Austria, Petrus Alamire DISCOVERY OF - upon reservation and Thomas More. BURGUNDIAN MECHELEN BOOKING: Visit Mechelen, GUIDED TOURS FOR GROUPS [email protected] One of the finest extant city palaces AVAILABLE AS FROM 1 JULY 2018. of the European Renaissance VISIT OF MUSEUM will provide the setting for this ALDERMEN'S HOUSE experience, as it will be transformed HOF VAN BUSLEYDEN into a contemporary city palace (SCHEPENHUIS) Experience the museum's highlights and thus regain its former glory. with a guide. As from September 2018 Visit The beautiful house of the humanist Mechelen will open a new visitor and art collector, Hiëronymus van PRICE: 80 EURO guide (tbc)+ 7 EURO centre presenting, amongst others, Busleyden, will offer visitors a user- group/6 EURO trade museum entrance burgundian experiences in Mechelen, driven experience based on strong, (maximum of 15 persons per guide) Flanders and Europe. and visually powerful masterpieces of DURATION: 1,5h the epoch and serve as a base for the Daily, except Wednesdays Steenweg 1 discovery of Burgundian Netherlands, - upon reservation 2800 Mechelen in all its glory. BOOKING: Visit Mechelen, www.visitmechelen.be [email protected] PRACTICAL INFORMATION AVAILABLE AS FROM 1 JULY 2018. MONUMENTAL CHURCHES www.hofvanbusleyden.be BURGUNDIAN MECHELEN In Mechelen’s city centre, you find no MUSEUM HOF VAN BUSLEYDEN less than eight monumental churches, Frederik de Merodestraat 65 A historic walking tour with guide each presenting exceptional art and 2800 Mechelen along Mechelen's highlights dating architecture. Discover paintings by from the Burgundian era. Rubens in St John's Church and Our TRADE CONTACT Lady-across-the-Dyle and Van Dyck at Florie Wilberts PRICE: 75 EURO guide (maximum of St-Rumbold's Cathedral. Free entrance [email protected] 25 persons per guide) T +32 (0)15 29 76 56 DURATION: 2h Daily, except Wednesdays Daily - upon reservation SUMMER: 13h - 17h Veerle Lenaerts BOOKING: Visit Mechelen, WINTER: 13h - 16h [email protected] [email protected] + 32 (0)15 29 76 59
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FLEMISH MASTERS IN SITU 2018-2019
The Flemish Masters in situ project is made up of 40 exhibition ever on the works of Theodoor Van Loon, carefully selected oeuvres away from the well-trodden one of the most innovative Flemish Masters of his and busy tourist trails. Often to be found in smaller generation. The exhibition complements the in situ towns and villages across Flanders, they take visitors to works of Van Loon that are on display at the Basilica of a variety of places (chapels, churches, castles and town Scherpenheuvel and in the Beguinage Church in Brussels. halls) where they can admire original paintings by the Flemish masters from the 15th, 16th and 17th centuries, in PRACTICAL INFORMATION their original location. Pilgrims Passport: 10 EURO The stories of each item will be told using words and the latest digital technology. Touchscreens with state-of-the- www.flemishmastersinsitu.com art images will show the details of masterpieces, while audio guides will further enhance the visitor experience. TRADE CONTACT Peter Wouters Flemish Masters in situ will open in 2018 with some ten [email protected], T +32 (0)92695830 sites in and around Antwerp, in the context of Antwerp Baroque City, with other sites opening their doors in TRADE CONTACT BOZAR 2019. In line with this project, Bozar (in collaboration Syvlie Verbeke with the Royal Museums for Fine Arts of Belgium) will [email protected] host from 10/10/2018 – 13/1/2019 the first monographic T +32 (0)2 507 84 78
SACRED BOOKS / SECRET LIBRARIES The project Sacred Books / Secret Libraries gives a unique insight into the religious life in Bruges. Two religious sites will be unlocked, preserved and strengthened. The English Convent and the Monastery of the Discalced Carmelites are still religious orders. Both have a unique library or book collection and even a panoramic garden.
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59 MODERN DAY FLEMISH MASTERS OF FASHION
For more than three decades Antwerp has been a leading city when it comes to fashion, and it has now been confirmed as one of the Top 10 most stylish destinations in the world. With its conceptual and avant-garde taste, world-renowned Fashion Museum (MoMu) and constant supply of new talent from the Fashion Department of the Royal Academy in Antwerp, the city is the centre of modern day Flemish Masters of Fashion. Antwerp is characterised by independent fashion houses with a focus on quality, originality, craftsmanship and innovation.
MARK YOUR CALENDARS: MODE2020 will not just be ANTWERP: MODE2020 enjoyed within museum walls as, A FASHION in addition, there is a plethora of DESTINATION ‘MODE2020’ - in the second half cultural and artistic initiatives, of 2020 - will be a unique fashion events and tours in preparation to ensure that individuals and Antwerp lives and breathes festival in Antwerp with events, groups can enjoy and experience fashion and is, therefore, a exhibitions, shopping experiences Antwerp to the fullest. It is the sought-after destination for and urban interventions in the perfect opportunity for visitors fashionistas from all over city. The whole project will to immerse themselves in the the world. It’s a place where specifically highlight the parallels world of fashion, and at the same fashion not only lives in between contemporary Flemish time grasp its vast heritage, rich museums and boutiques, fashion and the history of the gastronomy and vibrant shopping but also on the streets. Flemish Masters. landscape. This is not surprising, as it’s merely another Organised in cooperation with More information on MODE2020 contemporary illustration of the most important museums in (booking information, programme, Flemish ‘mastery’ in the arts. Antwerp (such as MoMu, Royal Museum of Fine Arts and FOMU), prices for trade) will follow in 2018. this ‘Fashion Year of 2020’ will be one-of-a-kind on the world stage and is aimed explicitly at international visitors.
60 MOMU KMSKA ORIGINAL DESIGNER FASHION MUSEUM ROYAL MUSEUM OF FINE SHOPPING IN ANTWERP ARTS ANTWERP Antwerp is an easy city to get Visitors should be prepared for Along with MoMu, the KSMKA team around. Public transport is a showcase of many big name will organize a unique exhibition excellent and most shopping areas designers as well as up-and-coming that uncovers the relationship are within walking distance of talent. This event will highlight between fashion and art. each other, so wherever visitors many of Antwerp’s creators of the go in the city, they’ll find original future (via the fashion department fashion outlets ranging from ‘high of the Antwerp Academy). street’ to ‘avant-garde’.
The infrastructure of the museum is being significantly extended: three new exhibition spaces, a customised reception, museum catering and MICE facilities in the MoMu Fashion Museum will be opened. This way, visitors will enjoy a complete and unique experience.
A new permanent exhibition, telling the story of Antwerp and Belgian fashion, will be visually powerful and adapted to a wide FOMU All the flagship stores and top audience, complete with the PHOTOGRAPHY MUSEUM boutiques of the main designers, latest digital technologies to plus unique concept stores, quirky create a dynamic and interactive OF ANTWERP pop up shops and vintage outlets. experience for the visitor. Fashion is a profoundly visual Unlike in other fashion capitals, medium, so in collaboration this large selection of shops can with FOMU, an exhibition will be be found within a small area, organised on fashion photography, making shopping in Antwerp a showing off the interactive genuine pleasure. relationship between 2-D and 3-D design.
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The following DMCs and incoming operators are able to create tailor-made Flemish Masters experiences. To give a sense of what’s possible, a selection of inspirational proposals are available at: WWW.VISITFLANDERS.COM/FLEMISHMASTERSTRADE
All About Belgium Perfect + Event Stationsstraat 30B, 9340 Lede Productions Belgium Geerwijnstraat 9, 8000 Bruges TRAVELLING IN T +32 (0)53 80 98 18 Belgium FLANDERS E [email protected] T +32 (0)50 34 76 08 W www.aab-allaboutbelgium.be E [email protected] W www.perfectplus.be Flanders is an easy place to travel around. All of our Brussels and Beyond cities are close to each other Geerdegemvaart 96 - 98, Focus Flanders and accessible by public 2800 Mechelen Nederkouter 35, transport or car. English is Belgium 9000 Ghent widely spoken and Flemish T + 32 (0)15 407 537 Belgium people are always ready to E [email protected] T +32 (0)9 269 90 62 help out. W www.brusselsandbeyond.be E [email protected] W www.focusflanders.com For detailed trade information regarding transportation, @dmire please go to: Gemeenveldstraat 93 Brilliant Belgium 1652 Beersel (Alsemberg) Lambermontplaats 12, www.visitflanders.com/ Belgium 2000 Antwerp flemishmasterstrade T +32 (0)2 361 65 59 Belgium E [email protected] T +32 (0)3 331 3 330 W www.admire.be E [email protected] W www.brilliantbelgium.com
USE OF FLEMISH MASTERS IMAGES If you would like to use images of our Art cities and the Flemish masters offer you can find them on Flickr: www.flickr.com/visitflanders
Images of the paintings are also available and can be requested with your local trade contact. Please follow the copyright instructions as mentioned in Flickr.
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