User:Harvestman/sub/Flemish painting

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Flanders and the Netherlands have been associated with great painting for centuries. First spanish owned, and after a republic, the provinces gave birth to artists, such as Matsys, Bosch, Bruegel, and Dutch Masters : Rembrandt van Rijn, Johannes Vermeer.

Renaissance
This period of artistic transformation led to research from the ancient (Grece, Rome) and new techniques, like perspective and oil painting : the colours then used kept freshness and light until now.

An italian inspired school includes Quentin Matsys, Roger Van der Weyden. Another school takes common inspiration with a more realistic (landscapes, games), or even fantastic, verve : Hieronymus Bosch, Pieter Bruegel (the Elder).
 * Caspar de Crayer
 * Denis Calvaert
 * Hans Memling
 * Jan van Eyck
 * Petrus Christus
 * Petrus Christus

Baroque
Historically, that period is related to as Dutch Golden Age. Religious themes (Adam and Eve, Crucifixion) are on par with intimist scenes, playing with reflections and opulence ; still lifes, portraits, genre paintings. Enter Rembrandt with plays of light and shadow, self protraits and paintings paid by corporations, (the night watch, and also civil guards by Franz Hals).
 * Antony Francis van der Meulen
 * David Teniers III
 * Johannes Vermeer
 * Peter Paul Rubens
 * Pieter Brueghel the Younger
 * Pieter Brueghel the Younger

Where to see flemish paintings

 * British Museum, London
 * Groeningemuseum, Bruges, Belgium
 * Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna
 * Musée du Louvre, Paris
 * Museo del Prado, Madrid
 * The Hague's Mauritshuis, the Netherlands
 * The National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC