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Flemish Masters

The Flemish Masters welcome you

Make sure Flanders is on your travel agenda. As we speak, Flanders is putting the spotlight on the Flemish Masters: Rubens, Bruegel and Van Eyck. Flanders is celebrating them festively with a wide range of activities and events.

Visit our Art cities: Antwerp, Bruges, Brussels, Ghent, Leuven, Mechelen, and many more locations.

Choose your personal guide Visit Flanders

The Flemish Masters welcome you

Make sure Flanders is on your travel agenda. As we speak, Flanders is putting the spotlight on the Flemish Masters: Rubens, Bruegel and Van Eyck.

Choose your personal guide

Flanders is celebrating them festively with a wide range of activities and events.

Visit Flanders

  • The art of painting
  • Visual stories
  • Photography
  • food & drinks
  • festivals
  • cycling
  • Architecture
  • design
  • landscape
  • romantic hideaways
  • Diamonds
  • Fashion & lifestyle

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  • The art of painting
  • Visual stories
  • Photography
  • food & drinks
  • festivals
  • cycling
  • Architecture
  • design
  • landscape
  • romantic hideaways
  • Diamonds
  • Fashion & lifestyle

Discover Flanders.
These guides, painted by the Flemish Masters, will show you the best places to visit.

Yesterday was ideal for booking a trip to Flanders, but you're in luck – so is today! The unique Flemish Masters programme is running as we speak.

Interested in culture and visual arts?

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Enjoy eating and drinking in an arty atmosphere?

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Love architectural gems from old and contemporary masters?

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Feel like doing some culturally responsible shopping and admiring some diamonds?

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Your guide Anthony

Interested in culture and visual arts?

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Enjoy eating and drinking in an arty atmosphere?

Your guide Nicolaas

Love architectural gems from old and contemporary masters?

Your guide Venus

Feel like doing some culturally responsible shopping and admiring some diamonds?

Make sure to put these activities in your diary.

When would you like to visit Flanders?

The Ghent Altarpiece: the return of its divine colours

The Ghent Altarpiece: the return of its divine colours

St. Bavo’s Cathedral in Ghent will briefly close its doors from 8 until 25 March 2021. During this time, the restored panels of the Ghent Altarpiece will be reinstalled with extreme precision. The mas...

Event

OMG! Van Eyck was here: Ghent honours its old master

OMG! Van Eyck was here: Ghent honours its old master

Jan van Eyck once lived in Ghent, where his magnum opus still adorns the St. Bavo's Cathedral. In 2021, Ghent is honouring him with 'OMG! Van Eyck was here', a captivating city festival with visual ar...

01 Feb

2020

31 Dec

2021

Ghent

Event

Bruges: Birthplace of the Flemish Primitives

Bruges: Birthplace of the Flemish Primitives

The Ghent Altarpiece may belong to Ghent, but Jan van Eyck was also a resident of Bruges. He was a court painter in Bruges under the Burgundian dukes and gave the city two incredible masterpieces. Tha...

12 Mar

2020

28 Feb

2021

Bruges

Expo

Meet Dieric Bouts at home

Meet Dieric Bouts at home

The Flemish Masters are much more than just Van Eyck, Bruegel and Rubens. Dieric Bouts is another name on that list.

15 Mar

2020

31 Dec

2021

Saint Peter’s Church Leuven

Expo

New visitor centre honours the return of the Mystic Lamb

New visitor centre honours the return of the Mystic Lamb

Since its completion in 1432, millions of visitors from all over the world have travelled to Ghent to admire The Adoration of the Mystic Lamb, also known as the Ghent Altarpiece, painted by the brothe...

21 Mar

2021

31 Dec

2025

Saint Bavo’s Cathedral

Who are the Flemish Masters?

Peter Paul Rubens (1577 - 1640)

Peter Paul Rubens is widely known as a successful artist, but he was also an esteemed diplomat, polyglot and art collector. His brilliant spirit lives on in the city of Antwerp today, not just in its baroque paintings and architecture, but also as an inspiration for contemporary artists. In 2018, the city of Antwerp will celebrate its baroque cultural heritage and the Baroque lifestyle that is undeniably part of the city’s DNA.

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Peter Paul Rubens

Assumption of the Virgin Mary - © www.lukasweb.be - Art in Flanders vzw

Pieter Bruegel (1525 - 1569)

Pieter Bruegel the Elder is largely responsible for the creation of Flanders’ national psyche and collective consciousness as hard working yet bon vivant. In Flanders, you can still find the beautiful landscapes, picturesque villages and the ‘joie de vivre’ that Bruegel painted so beautifully. But Flanders and the works of Bruegel are much more than that. 2019 is the time to find out just how much more there is to be discovered about Bruegel. Flanders will celebrate the 450th anniversary of the Master’s death with all the honours he deserves : an impressive series of exhibitions and events will showcase what an exceptional artist he was.

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Pieter Bruegel

Mad Meg - © Museum Mayer van den Bergh, Antwerp, foto: KIK-IRPA

Jan van Eyck (1390 - 1441)

Since its completion in 1432, millions of visitors from all over the world have travelled to Ghent to admire the altarpiece ‘The Adoration of the Mystic Lamb’ by Jan and Hubert van Eyck. But for more than four hundred years, we haven’t actually been looking at the real Van Eyck, but at layers and layers of paint on top of the real thing. In 2020, the restored altarpiece is finally coming home to the Saint Bavo’s Cathedral in Ghent. There is simply no valid excuse in the world to miss the chance to see this iconic and legendary masterpiece.

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Jan van Eyck

The Ghent Altarpiece / The Adoration of the Sacred Lamb (Angels singing) - © lukasweb.be - Art in Flanders

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