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Ghent: Museum of Fine Arts MSK

 

(vero;2023-Sept-29)

The Museum of Fine Arts Ghent (MSK) is the oldest museum in Belgium. The core of the collection dates back to 1798 and includes masterpieces of European painting and sculpture from the Middle Ages to the present day, with a special focus on (Belgian) art from the 19th and first half of the 20th century. We concentrated on medieval and Flemish paintings and strolled through the other galleries, click here to discover and explore the museum's full collection.

The museum is closed on Mondays, click here for practical information on opening times and prices.

The Calling of Saint Matthew by Marinus van Reymerswale (1536). Quoting from the Gospel of Matthew: << as Jesus went on from there (he had just healed a paralysed man), he saw a man named Matthew sitting at the tax collector's booth. "Follow me", he told him, and Matthew got up and followed him >>. Click here for a full view of the painting and some details.
Detail of Calvary by Maarten van Heemskerck (1543). Click here for a full view of the painting and some details. Detail of The Last Judgement by Rafaël Coxie (ca.1588-1589). Click here for a full view of the painting and some details. Triptych of The Family of Saint Anne by the Master of the Family of Saint Anne (ca.1500-1510). This photo is a detail of the central panel, click here for a full view of the triptych and some details. The Holy Trinity with Donors and Saints by an Anonymous Master (ca.1480-1490). Click here for a full view of the painting and some details. Detail of The Holy Trinity with Donors and Saints by an Anonymous Master (see previous picture). Detail of the left panel of a triptych showing the Circumcision of Christ by the Master of the Wenemaer Triptych (ca.1475-1480). Click here for a full view of the triptych and some details. Detail of the central panel of a triptych showing the Birth of Christ by the Master of the Wenemaer Triptych (ca.1475-1480). Click here for a full view of the triptych and some details. Detail of the right panel of a triptych showing the Adoration of the Magi by the Master of the Wenemaer Triptych (ca.1475-1480). Click here for a full view of the triptych and some details. Detail of Christ Crowned with Thorns by the Master of the Plock Altar (ca.1520). Click here for a full view of the painting and some details. Detail of Christ Carrying the Cross by Hieronymus Bosch (ca.1510-1516). Click here for a full view of the painting and some details. Detail of Christ Carrying the Cross by Hieronymus Bosch (ca.1510-1516). Click here for a full view of the painting and some details. Detail of Christ Carrying the Cross by Hieronymus Bosch (ca.1510-1516). Click here for a full view of the painting and some details. Saint Jerome by Hieronymus Bosch (ca.1485-1495). Can you spot the lion, Jerome's companion and a grumpy owl on a branch? Click here for a full view of the painting and some details. The Adoration of the Magi by Colijn de Coter (15-16th century). Click here for a full view of the painting and some details. Entombment by an Anonymous Master (ca.1400). Click here for a full view of the painting and some details. Detail of Calvary by Jacob Cornelisz Van Oostzanen, known as Jacob of Amsterdam (ca.1524). Click here for a full view of the painting and some details. Hovering Angel in alabaster (ca.1515-1530). Click here for more details. Village Lawyer by Pieter Bruegel II (1621). Click here for a full view of the painting and some details. Farmer's Wedding in a Barn by Pieter II Bruegel (ca.1616). Click here for a full view of the painting and some details. Wedding Dance in the Open Air by Pieter II Bruegel. Click here for a full view of the painting and some details. Christ Carrying the Cross by an Anonymous Master (1591). Click here for a full view of the painting and some details. Village Fair by Joos Cornelisz Droochslot (1629). Click here for a full view of the painting and some details. Detail of Village Fair by Jan Miense Molenaer (1644). Click here for a full view of the painting and some details. Allegory of Benevolence by Benjamin Sammelins (1589). Click here for a full view of the painting and some details. Christ and the Adulteress by an Anonymous Master (1540). A woman accused of adultery is brought by a group of Pharisees to Jesus as he is teaching at the temple. They tell him she was caught in flagrante and ask whether she should suffer the usual punishment of death by stoning as per the law of Moses. Jesus then writes something in the dust on the ground with his finger and declares that the one who is without sin is the one who should cast the first stone at her. When the accusers hear this, they realise that not one of them is without sin either and all leave the place. When Jesus is alone with the woman he then asks her if anyone of her accusers has condemned her. She answers no and Jesus says then that he too does not condemn her and tells her "to go and sin no more". Click here for a full view of the painting and some details. The Adoration of the Shepherds, 1546 (alabaster). Click here for more details. Portrait of a Young Woman by Frans I Pourbus (1581). Click here for a full view of the painting and some details. Portrait of a Nobleman by an Anonymous Master (ca.1640-1660). Click here for a full view of the painting and some details. Portrait of Livina van Steelant by Gerard Horenbout (ca. 1524). Click here for a full view of the painting and some details. Detail of The Rumbling Pot (The Friction Drum) by Joos van Craesbeeck (ca.1630-1640). Click here for a full view of the painting and some details. A Fair in Ghent in the Middle Ages by Felix de Vigne (19th century). Click here for a full view of the painting and some details. Portrait of Isabella of Austria (born 1501 in Brussels - died 1526 in Ghent) by an Anonymous Master (16th century). She was the daughter of King Philip I and Queen Joanna of Castille and the sister of the Holy Roman Emperor Charles V. Also known as Elizabeth, she became Queen of Denmark, Norway and Sweden when she married King Christian II. She ruled Denmark as regent in 1520. Click here for a full view of the painting and some details. Portrait of Philip IV, King of Spain and Portugal (1605-1665) by Gustave Vanaise (19th century), easy to recognise with his fancy moustache. Click here for a full view of the painting and some details. Detail of Jupiter and Antiope by Anthony van Dyck (ca.1620). Legend says that Antiope's beauty attracted Jupiter who assumed the form of a satyr to rape her. She fled and gave birth to twins, Amphion and Zethus, who were brought up by shepherds. Visit this page of Wikipedia to read what happened next… Click here for a full view of the painting and some details. Saint Bavo's Cathedral and the Reep Canal in Ghent by Pierre François de Noter (1831). Click here for a full view of the painting and some details. Saint Veronica of Binasco by François-Joseph Navez (1816). Click here for a full view of the painting and some details. Portrait of Mary Huart-Chapel by François-Joseph Navez. She was the daughter of an industrialist (forge master) and wife to Paul-François Huart-Chapel (1770-1850), a Belgian industrialist (metallurgy), inventor and politician. Click here for a full view of the painting and some details. Young Girl on a Red Carpet by Felice Casorati (ca.1912). Click here for a full view of the painting and some details. Tree in the Sun by Emile Claus (1900). Click here for a full view of the painting and some details. Praying Woman (study for Old Flanders) by Théophile Marie-François Lybaert (19-20th century). Click here for a full view of the painting and some details. Woman Musing by Albert Philippot (1933). Click here for a full view of the painting and some details. Portrait of the Art Critic Sander Pierron by Frans van Holder (1909). Click here for a full view of the painting and some details. The Lecture by Emile Verhaeren painted by Théo Van Rysselberghe (1903). Verhaeren was a Belgian poet and art critic, he was one of the founders of the school of Symbolism and was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature on six occasions. Click here for a full view of the painting and some details. Detail of A Farm in a Valley by Valerius de Saedeleer (ca.1916). Click here for a full view of the painting and some details. The Cattle Stable by Jenny Montigny (1907). Click here for a full view of the painting and some details. The Begonias (The Gardener) by Jenny Montigny (1913). Click here for a full view of the painting and some details. Portrait of Mrs Adolphe Neyt by Émile Auguste Carolus-Duran (1871). Adolphe Neyt (1830-1892) was the owner of a sugar refinery, actually founded by his father, Joachim Neyt (1765-1831) and served as a liberal municipal councillor in Ghent (1865-1869). He married Elizabeth Drory, daughter of George William Drory, an Englishman and inspector general of the Imperial Continental Gas Association, of which the Ghent gas works was a branch. Click here for a full view of the painting and some details.



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