GROENINGE MUSEUM
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Groeninge Museum, a temple of local and regional painting with an international reputation, with a permanent collection
Visitors to Bruges can't remain indifferent to Flemish primitive painters. This temple to local and regional painting, with an international reputation, houses a masterly permanent collection spanning almost six centuries of Flemish pictorial culture in its rooms, which will be completely renovated and redesigned in 2020. From the works of the great primitives to expressionism. The children of the region are honored, with Bruges artists in the spotlight. Among them, van Eyck, who was not born but died in Bruges. Among his remarkable works is the Virgin with Canon, painted in 1436, exhibited in its original frame. Also on display are Memling'sAnnunciation and two wooden panels depicting Simon Marmion's Virgin weeping Christ. But also Hugo Van Der Goes' landmark work, The Death of the Virgin, dating from 1470, and many other masterpieces by Jérôme Bosch, Pieter Brueghel, Gérard David, Pieter Pourbus and Jan Provoost. All periods from the 15th century to the present day are represented by their most emblematic artists: the masters of the Renaissance and Baroque periods, the most impressive paintings of the Neoclassical and Realist periods of the 18th and 19th centuries, the Flemish Symbolists and Expressionists, and the Surrealists Jean Delville, Fernand Khnopff, René Magritte, Paul Delvaux, Émile Claus, Bram Bogaert, Pierre Alechinsky and James Ensor from Ostend.to name but a few.
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