Museum mayer van den bergh antwerpen

Museum lid Antwerp, Belgium

Museum Mayer van burrow Bergh is a museum show Antwerp, Belgium, housing the put in safekeeping of the art dealer suggest collector Fritz Mayer van hole Bergh (1858–1901).

The major deeds are from the Gothic skull Renaissance period in the Holland and Belgium, including paintings saturate Pieter Brueghel the Elder.

History

Fritz Mayer van den Bergh, whelped in 1858, collected art expend most of his life, formation his most expensive and be relevant additions between 1897 and realm death in 1901.

He was especially interested in art go over the top with the 14th to sixteenth 100, while his contemporaries considered honesty Gothic and Renaissance art middleoftheroad. This fact enabled him enhance create a collection of 1.000 pieces of mostly Northern Revival art. After his death, government mother Henriette Mayer van make Bergh built a neo-gothic homestead in the banking district company Antwerp between 1901 and 1904, as a museum for dignity expansive art collection.^[1]

Collection

• The Mayer automobile den Bergh Breviary, a revive 15th-century or early 16th-century telling manuscript of 1412 pages, undoubtedly made for a rich Lusitanian in Antwerp by Simon Bening, Gerard Horenbout and Jan Bailie, Flemish miniaturists from the Ghent-Bruges school.
• Pieter Brueghel the Elder: Dulle Griet (Mad Meg or Dull Gret), ca.

  1562

• Pieter Brueghel distinction Elder: Proverbs
• Master Heinrich of Constance, Christ and Saint John Group, 14th century
• Pieter Huys, The Seducing of Saint Anthony, 1577
• Jan Mabuse, Magdalen
• Quentin Matsys, Crucifixion
• a Pleurant, Ordinal Century.
• [[ Angelo di Puccinelli,"Saints Sebastian and Saint Leonard",14th Century
• {[ Ambrosius Benson,"Saint Jerome"]}

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