Groeningemuseum

The Groeningemuseum, Dijver 12, Bruges

Jan van Eyck's The Madonna with Canon van der Paele is one of the masterpieces of the museum

Joseph Denis Odevaere, Lord Byron on his Death-bed

The Groeningemuseum is a municipal museum in Bruges, Belgium, built on the site of the medieval Eekhout Abbey.

It houses a comprehensive survey of six centuries of Flemish and Belgian painting, from Jan van Eyck to Marcel Broodthaers. The museum's many highlights include its collection of Flemish Primitive art, works by a wide range of Renaissance and Baroque masters, as well as a selection of paintings from the 18th and 19th century neo-classical and realist periods, milestones of Belgian symbolism and modernism, masterpieces of Flemish expressionism and many items from the city's collection of post-war modern art.

Works include

• Jan van Eyck:
  • The Madonna with Canon van der Paele (1436)
  • Portrait of Margareta van Eyck (1439)
  • Portrait of Christ (1440)
• Gerard David
  • The Judgment of Cambyses Part 1, The Judgment of Sisamnes (1498)
  • The Judgment of Cambyses Part 2, The Flaying of Sisamnes (1498)
• Hieronymus Bosch and workshop
  • The Last Judgement (c. 1486)
• Adriaen Isenbrandt:
  • Portrait of Paulus de Nigro (1518)
  • Triptych
• Hugo van der Goes
  • Death of the Virgin (c. 1472-1480)
• Nicolaes Maes:
  • Portrait of Four Children (1657)
• Jan Provoost
  • Crucifixion (ca 1500)
  • Last Judgment for the Bruges town hall (1525)
• Dirk Bouts
  • Triptych of the Martyrdom of St. Hippolytus
• Fernand Khnopff
  • Secret-Reflet
• René Magritte
  • L'Attentat

Sources

• van Uffelen, Chris (2010). Contemporary Museums - Architecture, History, Collections. Braun Publishing. pp. 164–165. ISBN 978-3-03768-067-4. 

External links

Media related to Groeningemuseum at Wikimedia Commons

• Museum website