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This work is painted on copper, which was a popular medium for Brueghel and for many other Dutch and Flemish painters. Because oil paints can’t “sink into” copper like they do on canvas, they create a smooth and highly luminous surface.
Quentin Matsys (19.11.1466–1530) was a Flemish painter.Saint Luke Painting the Virgin and Child.Harvard College
Madonna and Child with the Donors Alexandre Goubeau and his wife Anne Antoni, 1604 #peterpaulrubens #flemishart
Drunken Bacchus with Faun and Satyr https://t.co/D1SJvtifdg #rubens #flemishart
Christ and St. John with Angels, 1620 #peterpaulrubens #flemishart
The Five Eldest Children of Charles I, by Anthony Van Dyck (Flemish), 1637, @RCT #paintingoftheday
Landscape with the Ruins of Mount Palatine in Rome, 1608 https://t.co/f28QcitEax #baroque #flemishart
Happy (Mappy) Birthday to Flemish cartographer extraordinaire, Abraham Ortelius 🎉 who was born #onthisday 1527. His landmark work "Theatrum Orbis Terrarum" [Theatre of the World] published 1570, was THE world's first modern atlas.
#mappybirthday #maps #stayhome
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Koninklijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten
Diana and her Nymphs Surprised by the Fauns, 1640 #flemishart #peterpaulrubens