As one might expect, the Royal Museum of Fine Arts is known especially for its collection of northern masters, one of our interests, so we had to visit. Alas, the Old Masters section has been under renovation (asbestos removal) for some years, and the exhibit is much reduced. Nonetheless it is world-class and is especially strong in paintings by our favorite painting family, the Breughels, Peter the Elder, Peter the Younger, and other son Jan.
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| Nice Annunciation, possibly by Robert Campin, a contemporary of van Eyck |
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Panel on Justice under Emperor Otto, by Dirk Bouts, mid-15th; note the frame
tracery exactly matches that in the panels; also note also the burning lady (witch?)
in the right panel |
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| Really nice Bosch, Triptych on the Temptations of St. Anthony; now reckoned a copy |
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| One of several Rogier van der Weyden works |
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Very famous Cranach Venus and Amor; Amor has gotten into a
bee hive |
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| Old Masters is the upper bit |
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| Now into the Breughel room...Elder's Magi |
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| Elder's Fall of Icarus (saw something similar in Rome, in 2013) |
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| Elder's Expulsion of the Angels (nasty angels) |
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| An Elder Breughel Winter Scene (more famous one in Vienna) |
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Elder's Census in Bethlehem; most interestingly, on the adjacent wall hung
Younger's almost indistinguishable copy |
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| Younger's Kermess, Theater and Procession |
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| Detail from the Bethlehem census |
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| Younger's Combat of the Carnival |
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