Groeningemuseum

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

• Museum website