Flemish paintings in Louvre Museum
Louvre Museum Flemish paintings by Bruegel, Rubens, Van Dick, Van Eyck are worth the trip. Acquired by French Kings and Queens, the collection includes 24 Rubens paintings in Galerie de Médicis. Louvre Museum facts.
Flemish paintings of Louvre Museum
Acquired by the Kings and Queens of France, the collection of Flemish paintings of the Louvre Museum is first class in its new setting.
The cycle of 24 Rubens paintings is one of the jewels of the Louvre. After the death of King Henri IV in 1610, his widow commissioned the Luxembourg Gardens and palace. She also commissioned for the palace a series of twenty-four monumental paintings executed by Flemish painter Paul Rubens between 1622 and 1625 and depicting the Queen's struggles and triumphs in life. These Flemish paintings are now visible in the Galerie Médicis.
Bruegel, Rubens and Van Dick are among the most famous and best represented Flemish painters in the Louvre Museum. Locate the Flemish painting department on Louvre Museum map PDF.
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Rubens - Village Wedding - Flemish painting - Louvre
This painting represents a village feast. The village feasts contributed to the fame of the Flemish School. These paintings often had a moral message, denouncing the human condition by showing all its excesses. Denouncing vices was not Rubens' main preoccupation.The picture was painted in 1635-38, during the artist's late period, when he was at the height of his glory. Rubens gives his painting rhythm with rapid touches of bright color that he makes no attempt to conceal. The picture was bought by Sun King in 1685. Its virtuoso technique and sense of color inspired many French painters.
Pieter Bruegel - The blind leading the blind - Flemish painting - Louvre
The parable reported in the Gospels of St. Matthew (XV, 14) and St. Luke (VI, 39) deals with spiritual blindness (attacks on the Christian faith, the weight of evil and sin, heresies, all particularly sensitive issues at the time of Pieter I). The church visible in the background has a strong symbolic presence. – Work by a Flemish painter from the end of the 16th century copying the famous painting by Pieter Bruegel dated 1568, kept at the Museo di Capodimonte in Naples.
Pieter Bruegel - The beggars - Flemish painting - Louvre
Flemish artist Pieter Bruegel painted The Beggars towards the end of his career. It depicts a group of five crippled men, and a woman who appears to be able-bodied at the back who appears to be a beggar, with her head turned away from them. The strange painting has been gazed at over the centuries in an attempt to understand its meaning. The crippled boys all wear different types of hats: a crown, a soldier’ shako, a bishop’s mitre, a beret, and a cap
Jan Van Eyck - The Madonna of Chancellor Rolin - Flemish painting - Louvre
The Madonna of Chancellor Rolin, an oil painting by Flemish painter Jan van Eyck, dates back to 1435. It was commissioned by Nicolas Rolin, chancellor of the Duchy of Burgundy, whose votive portrait takes up the left side of the picture, for his parish church, Notre Dame-du Chastel in Autun, where it remained until the church was burnt down in 1793. It subsequently entered the Louvre collections. Nicolas Rolin was chancellor to Philip the Good, duke of Burgundy. On the painting, he is worshiping the Infant Jesus, who blesses him, holding a globe of the world as a sign of his power over Creation. The central role of Mary, mother of Christ, is emphasized by her royal crown, which is carried by angels.
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Beggars - Bruegel