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#FLEMISH EYE: Sanctity of the Bourgeois
All that is needed to appreciate Flemish painting, Michelangelo once observed, are two eyes and an interest in facts. He was alluding to the intense realism, the extreme precision, and the illusionistic impression of light and atmosphere with which the … Continue reading
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Tagged Book of Hours Bruges, Erasmus, Erwin Panofsky, Flemish painting, Jan van Eyck, Joachim Patinir, Limbourg Brothers The Book of Hours, Linda Seidel, Michelangelo, Northern Renaissance Art, Petrus Christus, Quentin Massys, Renaissance Art, Robert Campin, Rogier van der Weyden
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BLOOD & CHOCOLATE
What the tides created, the tides destroyed. It left a silt bound city that has hardly changed since the time of its glory as a trading port of the Middle Ages. If Bruges had not existed, it might have been … Continue reading
Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Literature/poetry/spoken word, Miscellaneous, Visual Art/Sculpture/etc.
Tagged Baldwin Iron Arm, Battle of the Golden Spurs, Book of Hours Bruges, Charles the Bald, Froissart Chronicles, George William Thomson Omond, Groening Museum, Guillaume Moreel, Hans Memling, History of Bruges, Jean de Navarre, Jean Froissart, John Ruskin, John Schofield, Lewis Mumford, Michael Wheeler, Pieter van Eyck, Pope Boniface VII
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