The publication Bruegel and Beyond – Netherlandish Drawings in the Royal Library of Belgium, 1500-1800 brings together for the first time over one hundred master drawings from the Royal Library’s vaults.
The Royal Library of Belgium in Brussels houses the largest collection of drawings in the country. Among its highlights are works by leading artists of the Low Countries, including Pieter ...
‘At home in a museum. The story of Henriëtte and Fritz Mayer van den Bergh’ delves deeper into the origins and fascinating history of the Museum Mayer van den Bergh and its founders, Henriëtte en Fritz Mayer van den Bergh. The book, which contains lots of quotes and previously unpublished 19th-century photos, chronicles the Belle Epoque in Antwerp.
Henriëtte van den Bergh
At home in a museum ...
Together with Visit Flanders, the Kunsthistorisches Museum Vienna has developed the 3D Virtual Experience ‘See Bruegel. Only in Vienna’. The virtual tour explores the ‘Bruegel Gallery’ (Gallery X) of the Kunsthistorisches Museum. The Kunsthistorisches Museum Vienna houses twelve of Bruegel's paintings, by far the largest and most important collection of his paintings in the world, among them ...
Deadline 31 March 2021
The Périer-D’Ieteren Foundation grants its support to a European visiting researcher at a Belgian university, to carry out postdoctoral research in the fields of art history or conservation-restoration under the supervision of a member of the university’s teaching staff. The grant will be awarded for a period of three to six months. The Foundation also offers selected ...
The Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna organised the largest ever exhibition devoted solely to Pieter Bruegel the Elder. It was the result of six years of research that also involved input from numerous experts in the fields of art history, conservation and science.
The curatorial team - Elke Oberthaler, Sabine Pénot, Manfred Sellink and Ron Spronk, with Alice Hoppe-Harnoncourt - invited these ...
With Bruegel, Lisaboa Houbrechts has written a kaleidoscopic portrait of Pieter Bruegel the Elder and the era in which he created Dulle Griet. In this production, the character taking the viewer on a trip through time is Dulle Griet, a woman who is denigrated as a ‘battle-axe’ because she supposedly steals objects for hell. But what if she is not stealing those objects but actually trying to save ...
From 14 December 2019 until 30 August 2020, The Conservation Department of the Detroit Institute of Arts (DIA), in collaboration with the European Art Department, is organizing a focus exhibition to celebrate one of the museum’s most iconic paintings, Pieter Bruegel’s The Wedding Dance (1566), on the occasion of the 450th anniversary of the artist’s death.
The painting was considered a ...
On 29 November 2019, the Belgian National Centre for History of Science organizes a symposium to discuss Bruegel’s relation to the world of learning.
During the sixteenth century, knowledge of the natural world spread rapidly among a growing audience of collectors, artists, printers, and philosophers. Knowledge materialized in the form of botanical gardens, cabinets of curiosity, and an array ...
In a special focus exhibition 'Portret van een Bruegelexpert', the Rubenianum shows the work of art historian Fritz Grossmann, a scholar who dedicated a large part of his career to Bruegel the Elder.
In 1985 the collection of Fritz Grossmann (1902-1984) was donated to the Rubenianum. Grossmann was an authority on Bruegel and worked as Ludwig Burchard’s assistant. He devoted much of his ...
The exhibition ‘The Renaissance of Etching’ will trace the first 60 years of the etched print through some 125 etchings created by both renowned and lesser-known artists, displayed alongside a selection of drawings, printing plates, etching tools, illustrated books, and armor.
The Met’s exhibition will begin at the end of the 15th century with the origins of etching in the workshop of the ...
