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Koninklijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten

Museum Mayer van den Bergh

Rockox House

Museums in Antwerp

Picture Gallery, The Masterpieces

Koninklijk Museum voor Schone KunstenMayer van den Bergh Museum

Rockox House

Koninklijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten (Royal Museum of Fine Arts), Antwerp


FOUQUET, JeanMelun Diptych: Virgin and Child Surrounded by Angelsc. 1450Wood, 93 x 85 cmKoninklijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten, Antwerp

FOUQUET, JeanMelun Diptych: Virgin and Child Surrounded by Angels (detail)c. 1450Wood, 93 x 85 cmKoninklijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten, Antwerp

EYCK, Jan vanMadonna and Child at the Fountain (detail)1439Oil on wood, 19 x 12 cmKoninklijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten, Antwerp

DAVID, GerardPilate's Dispute with the High Priest; The Holy Women and St John at Golgotha1480-85Oil on panel, 45 x 43 cm (each)Koninklijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten, Antwerp

DAVID, GerardPilate's Dispute with the High Priest (detail)1480-85Oil on panel, 45 x 43 cmKoninklijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten, Antwerp

DAVID, GerardThe Holy Women and St John at Golgotha1480-85Oil on panel, 45 x 43 cmKoninklijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten, Antwerp

MASSYS, JanJudith-Oil on panel, 115 x 80,5 cmKoninklijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten, Antwerp

MASSYS, JanJudith (detail)-Oil on panel, 115 x 80,5 cmKoninklijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten, Antwerp

MASSYS, QuentinSt John Altarpiece1507-08Oil on wood, 260 x 504 cmKoninklijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten, Antwerp

MASSYS, QuentinSt John Altarpiece (central panel)1507-08Oil on woodKoninklijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten, Antwerp

MASSYS, QuentinSt John Altarpiece (right wing)1507-08Oil on woodKoninklijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten, Antwerp

MASSYS, QuentinSt John Altarpiece (left wing)1507-08Oil on woodKoninklijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten, Antwerp

MEMLING, HansPortrait of a Man with a Roman Coin1480 or laterOil on oak panel, 31 x 23,2 cmKoninklijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten, Antwerp

MEMLING, HansPortrait of a Man with a Roman Coin (detail)1480 or laterOil on oak panel, 31 x 23,2 cmKoninklijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten, Antwerp

RUBENS, Peter PaulLamentation of Christ1617-18Oil on panel, 138 x 98 cm (central panel), 137 x 48 cm (each side panel)Koninklijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten, Antwerp

RUBENS, Peter PaulLamentation of Christ (detail)1617-18Oil on panel, 138 x 98 cm (central panel), 137 x 48 cm (each side panel)Koninklijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten, Antwerp

TIZIANO VecellioPope Alexander VI Presenting Jacopo Pesaro to St Peter1506-11Oil on canvas, 146 x 184 cmKoninklijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten, Antwerp

TIZIANO VecellioPope Alexander VI Presenting Jacopo Pesaro to St Peter (detail)1506-11Oil on canvas, 146 x 184 cmKoninklijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten, Antwerp

WEYDEN, Rogier van derSeven Sacraments Altarpiece1445-50Oil on oak panel, 200 x 97 cm (central panel), 119 x 63 cm (side panel, each)Koninklijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten, Antwerp

WEYDEN, Rogier van derSeven Sacraments (central panel)1445-50Oil on oak panel, 200 x 97 cmKoninklijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten, Antwerp

WEYDEN, Rogier van derSeven Sacraments (left wing)1445-50Oil on oak panel, 119 x 63 cmKoninklijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten, Antwerp

WEYDEN, Rogier van derSeven Sacraments (right wing)1445-50Oil on oak panel, 119 x 63 cmKoninklijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten, Antwerp

WEYDEN, Rogier van derSeven Sacraments Altarpiece (detail)1445-50Oil on oak panelKoninklijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten, Antwerp

Mayer van den Bergh Museum, Antwerp


BRUEGEL, Pieter the ElderDulle Griet (Mad Meg)c. 1562Oil on wood, 117,4 x 162 cmMuseum Mayer van den Bergh, Antwerp

BRUEGEL, Pieter the ElderDulle Griet (detail)c. 1562Oil on woodMuseum Mayer van den Bergh, Antwer

MASTER of HoogstraetenAdoration of the Magi-Oil on oak panel, 83,4 x 73,1 cmMuseum Mayer van den Bergh, Antwerp

MASTER of HoogstraetenAdoration of the Magi (detail)-Oil on oak panelMuseum Mayer van den Bergh, Antwerp

VOS, Cornelis deElisabeth (or Cornelia) Vekemans as a Young Girlc. 1625Oil on wood, 123 x 93,4 cmMuseum Mayer van den Bergh, Antwerp

VOS, Cornelis deElisabeth (or Cornelia) Vekemans as a Young Girl (detail)c. 1625Oil on wood, 123 x 93,4 cmMuseum Mayer van den Bergh, Antwerp

JUAN DE FLANDESHerodias' Revenge1496Oil on wood, 75 x 50,4 cmMuseum Mayer van den Bergh, Antwerp

JUAN DE FLANDESHerodias' Revenge (detail)1496Oil on wood, 75 x 50,4 cmMuseum Mayer van den Bergh, Antwerp

Rockox House, Antwerp


LOMBARD, LambertThe Miracle of the Loaves and Fishes-Oil on panel, 104 x 110 cmRockox House, Antwerp

LOMBARD, LambertThe Miracle of the Loaves and Fishes (detail)-Oil on panelRockox House, Antwerp

HEMESSEN, Jan Sanders vanSt Jerome-Oil on panel, 103 x 81 cmRockox House, Antwerp

HEMESSEN, Jan Sanders vanSt Jerome (detail)-Oil on panel, 103 x 81 cmRockox House, Antwerp

BRUEGHEL, Pieter the YoungerProverbs-Oil on canvas, 123 x 164 cmRockox House, Antwerp

BRUEGHEL, Pieter the YoungerProverbs (detail)-Oil on canvasRockox House, Antwerp

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Koninklijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten, Antwerp

Royal Museum of Fine Arts, AntwerpThe earliest nucleus of the Koninklijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten (Royal Museum of Fine Arts) has its origin with the Antwerp

Guild of St Luke to which the city's artists belonged between 1382 and 1773. In 1663 an academy was founded under the guild's auspices. When the guilds were

disbanded in 1773, the Academy of Fine Arts took possession of the guild's gallery. The rather limited composition of the Academy's museum started to grow in the 19th century through generous donations. The passed into the ownership of the

state in 1927.

The collection preserved at the Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp provides a representative picture of art produced in the region between the fourteenth century and the present day. The collection as a whole now numbers more than 7,200 works of art, consisting of 3,200 painting, 3,600 drawings and prints, and 400 sculptures.

Mayer van den Bergh Museum, Antwerp

Mayer van den Bergh MuseumThe collection of this museum was assembled by Fritz Mayer (1858-1901) and his mother Henriette van den Bergh (1838-1920). Fritz Mayer was

raised in a wealthy and aristocratic environment and seemed destined for a career in diplomacy. However, when his father died in 1879, he broke off his studies to live with his mother. He devoted himself entirely to his passion - collecting works of art. He was assisted in the endeavour by his mother, to whom he was extremely close. This bond

was emphasized when he added her family name to his own. Fritz Mayer van den Bergh was knighted in 1888.

In the early part of his collector's career Fritz Mayer van den Bergh bought a wide variety of works of art, with a strong preference for numismatics and textile art. However, his

interest was not limited to the decorative arts, he began to buy paintings and sculptures in a very early stage, first in Italy and later in Holland and Flanders.

The collection is housed in a building looking like a 16th-century townhouse. In reality it was purpose-built in 1903-04 after the early death of Fritz van den Bergh by his mother

who is the true founder of the museum.

Rockox House, Antwerp

Façade of the Rockox HouseNicolaas Rockox was a great humanist, Burgomaster of Antwerp nine times in the first half of the 17th century, and friend and patron of

Rubens. Together with his contemporaries Rubens, Plantin, Moretus, Jordaens and Snyders, Rockox was one of the key figures who helped to create the spirit of

his times, at the height of the Baroque period in Antwerp.

Nicolaas Rockox's house was restored in 1970 to its former splendour as a tribute to the Flemish region. The house was then furnished with art works and furniture

which could have been found in a patrician house in the 17th century. The result is an outstanding example of a Flemish interior of the 17th century, displaying the

best that Flemish artists and craftsmen of the period had to offer.