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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.

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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

Guides

  • 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?

Follow Anthony

Enjoy eating and drinking in an arty atmosphere?

Follow Bacchus

Love architectural gems from old and contemporary masters?

Follow Nicolaas

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

Follow Venus

Your guide Anthony

Interested in culture and visual arts?

Your guide Bacchus

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?

Expo

Stay At Home Museum

Stay At Home Museum

Museums in Flanders closed? Not for you! Our curators and directors guide you personally past the masterpieces of van Eyck, Bruegel, Rubens and many more. Please be welcome in the “Stay At Home Museum...

Expo

Flemish Masters for children

Flemish Masters for children

Flanders and Brussels have been the epicentre of art, fashion, design and architecture for centuries. This makes it an exceptionally attractive travel destination for culture lovers. This is especiall...

01 May

2020

31 Dec

2020

Expo

Awaken your senses with Van Eyck

Awaken your senses with Van Eyck

To discover the Ghent of master painter Jan van Eyck, you need to use more than just your eyes and ears. Immerse yourself in a tantalising feast for the senses and encounter hidden gems in the histori...

02 Jul

2020

31 Oct

2020

Ghent

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Bruegel's world

Bruegel's world

Bokrijk, the famous open-air museum, guides you through the rich history of Flanders in a spectacular way, with Bruegel's work playing an important role.

06 Apr

2019

02 Nov

2020

Bokrijk Genk

Must do

2020: A tribute to Van Eyck and the Flemish Renaissance

2020: A tribute to Van Eyck and the Flemish Renaissance

Flanders is a piece of art. Whenever you come to our region, there are 13.000 m² of cultural experiences awaiting. Our permanent Flemish Master offer will get an extra glance by some particular events...

08 Jan

2020

31 Dec

2020

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 2020, Ghent is honouring him with 'OMG! Van Eyck was here', a captivating city festival with visual ar...

01 Feb

2020

31 Dec

2020

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

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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

2020

Saint Peter’s Church Leuven

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Meet The Masters, the 360°Experience

Meet The Masters, the 360°Experience

The Flemish Masters Jan van Eyck, Pieter Bruegel and Peter Paul Rubens are meeting each other for the first time this summer. Their worlds are converging in Meet The Masters, a beautiful, innovative a...

27 Aug

2020

31 Mar

2022

Dynastiepaleis Brussel

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Jan Fabre

Jan Fabre

The St. Augustine Church sought a contemporary painter for a new altarpiece. The assignment was given to Jan Fabre.

31 Dec

2020

Sint-Augustinus Antwerp

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Reunion. From Quinten Metsijs to Peter Paul Rubens

Reunion. From Quinten Metsijs to Peter Paul Rubens

Eight monumental altar pieces are back on display where they were originally designed to be: Antwerp cathedral.

31 Dec

2020

Cathedral of Our Lady Antwerp

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Bruegel’s Brussels in ten hotspots

Bruegel’s Brussels in ten hotspots

At the peak of his career, Pieter Bruegel the Elder moved from Antwerp to Brussels because he wanted to be as close as possible to his wealthy clients. One of those clients is highly likely to have be...

31 Dec

2020

Expo

The Madonna meets Mad Meg

The Madonna meets Mad Meg

Two master collectors guide you through centuries of Flemish and other masterpieces.

31 Dec

2020

Walk

Bruegel walk

Bruegel walk

In 2019, we are celebrating the life and work of Pieter Bruegel, 450 years after his death. This year is the ideal time to visit his hometown.

31 Dec

2020

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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