Brugge-Bruges

Various Museums

The Groeninge Museum

The Groenige is the City's Fine Arts Museum concentrating primarily on painters who lived and worked in Bruges. Its most prized painting is a large, elaborately executed Madonna commissioned by Canonicus Paele from Jan van Eyck - splendid but not my favorite.

Jan van Eyck, Madonna and Canonicus Joris van der Paele, 1436

Hugo van der Goes, Death of the Virgin, 1480

 

Gerard David, The Apprehension and Killing of Innocent Judge Cambyses, 1498

The gory but popular tale of a judge who wrongly accused of adultery by his wife was skinned alive.

Memling Museum in Sint Jans Hospital

In the former Sint-Jans Hospital six major pieces by Hans Memling are exhibited. Memling was born 1438 in Seligstadt, Germany. he died as one of the most influential Flamish painters 1494 in Bruges

Hans Memling, Trptych of the Two St Johns, 1479

Hans Memling, Sambetha Sibyl, 1480

Hans Memling, Nieuwenhove Diptych, 1487

Hans Memling, St. Ursula-Shrine, 1489

Sint Salvator Cathedral

Dieric Bouts the Elder, Martyrium of St. Hypolite, 1468