Curator Borchert guides you personally past Van Eyck's masterpieces. In your own living room you stand eye to eye with the "Adoration of the Mystic Lamb", the "Portrait of a Man with a Blue Chaperon" and other stunning highlights in the history of painting.
Bruegel was a 16th century superstar and he still holds star status in the world of art today. Admire the masterpieces that formerly graced the walls of emperors and queens from the comfort of your own living room. Your guide is none other than museum director Michel Draguet. He will be your companion as you step inside Bruegel’s painting, ‘The Fall of the Rebel Angels’.
This time around, you will be the guest of Rubens, the emperor of Baroque painters. Ben Van Beneden, the director of the Rubens House, welcomes you to the home where the artist lived and worked. Take a stroll through the garden where Rubens found inspiration, admire his art room, and step into the master’s inner sanctum – his workshop. En route, you be able to see a cornucopia of masterpieces, including Rubens’s famous self-portrait.
The director of the Getty Museum describes the work of James Ensor as “a landmark in Western art history”. Just for you, curator Mieke Mels is opening the doors of the Mu.ZEE, a museum in Ostend, the painter's hometown. Get to know this innovator of modern art and discover why he hid his ultimate masterpiece from the public for 30 years.
Hof van Busleyden is an impressive Bourgondic palace, once visited by Thomas More, Erasmus and Margareta of Austria.