Groeningemuseum

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The Groeningemuseum is a municipal museum of Bruges, Belgium.

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.

[edit] Works include

• Jan van Eyck:
  • The Madonna with Canon van der Paele (1436)
  • Portrait of Margareta van Eyck (1439)
  • Portrait of Christ (1440)
• Adriaen Isenbrandt:
  • Portrait of Paulus de Nigro (1518)
  • Triptych
• 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

[edit] External links

• Museum website

Coordinates: 51°12′22″N 3°13′35″E / 51.20611, 3.22639