Groeninge Museum, Bruges
Cultural delights in Bruges museum.
The Groeninge Museum in Bruges is home to an array of cultural delights, in particular work by painters who lived and working in the city.
Covering centuries of European art, from the 14th to the 20th centuries, highlights of the Groeninge Museum include work by Flemish Primitives, Renaissance and Baroque masters, neo-classical, Symbolist, Modernist and Expressionist painters.
Located in the beautiful Belgian city, the museum is also known as the fine arts museum and the building itself dates from 1929 though the collection was started in the 1700s.
Famous artists whose works are on show in the Groeninge Museum include Hieronymus Bosch, Jean Brusselmans, Paul Delvaux, Gustave De Smet, Rene Magritte, Jan van Eyck and Rik Wouters.
Visitors can see Jan Van Eyck's 1436 masterpiece The Madonna with Canon Joris van der Paele, one of the finest examples of early Flemish medieval painting, Death of the Holy Virgin by Hugo van der Goes and the Baptism of Christ by Gerard David.
The historic city of Bruges plays host each spring to a spectacular chocolate festival at the Oud Sint-Jan, which attracts crowds of tourists for the chocolate art contests, exhibits, tastings and films.
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08.08.2007.