Nicaise de Keyser
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Nicaise de Keyser was a Belgian painter of mainly history paintings and portraits who was one of the key figures in the Belgian Romantic-historical school of painting.
Lithograph by Charles Baugniet, 1836
Battle of the Golden Spurs (1836)
Leopold I of Belgium
Louise d'Orléans, Queen of the Belgians
Battle of the Golden Spurs
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The Battle of the Golden Spurs or Battle of Courtrai was a military confrontation between the royal army of France and rebellious forces of the County of Flanders on 11 July 1302 during the 1297–1305
Nicaise de Keyser
…Having debuted with religious pictures, his attention was later drawn to his country's history. His breakthrough as a painter came with the canvas Battle of the Golden Spurs, which was exhibited at the Brussels Salon in 1836. It depicts a scene from an important historical battle between France and Flanders of 1302. Seeing…
Depiction from the Grandes Chroniques de France
The Flemish line of battle as depicted on the Courtrai Chest
Fragments of original goedendags preserved at the Kortrijk museum
14th century drawing of the battle from the book Nuova Cronica