More Ghent Art

Next day, Sunday, June 2, we visited Ghent's Museum of Fine Arts (Museum voor Schone Kunsten) for what would be our final cultural outing on the Continent for a while. It is a primarily regional collection, mostly Belgian, 14th century to the present, with much emphasis on modern work. But some major oldies too.

Bosch's Christ Carrying the Cross is one of his last works; he died in 1516, and,
apparently sensing trouble with the religious authorities, ordered his unfinished
works destroyed; there is nothing else quite like this painting I know of, from
either the northern or Italian Renaissance

Christ's image on the Veil of Veronica; there's Veronica holding the veil...

Tormenters...

And another Bosch, his Holy Jerome; with all his attributes,
including the kitty-cat lion; c. 1500

Moving right along, the Younger Breughel's Village Lawyer; like any Breughel,
it rewards close study; it was very popular in its time, later 1500s...he made
some 70 copies

Younger's copy of Elder Breughels' Peasant Dance

Ditto the Peasant Wedding, last seen in Munich

Very large Last Judgment, by Rafael Conche, 1589

Lurid detail; with mirror warning...this could be you!

Henry Lays' Albrecht Durer Visiting Antwerp in 1520

Up closer detail; and there he is

Alfred Stevens' 1887 Mary Magdalene; most
unusual Magdalene so far

Magritte's Manet's Balcony (1950); I could like this guy

And finally, thinking of our 2-year-old grand-daughter, who is moving, we are
told,  beyond her Pointillist phase: Jan Hans Verhas' The Master Painter, 1877