Oldmasters Museum
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The Oldmasters Museum is an art museum in the Royal Quarter of Brussels, Belgium, dedicated to Old Master European painters of the 15th to the 18th centuries, with some later works. It is one of the c
The Oldmasters Museum's entrance on the Rue de la Régence/Regentschapsstraat
The Palace of Fine Arts, the museum's second (current) location, in 1910
Interior of the Palace of Fine Arts in 1910
Lamentation of Christ, Rogier van der Weyden, c. 1455
Musée des Beaux Arts (poem)
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"Musée des Beaux Arts" is a 21-line poem written by W. H. Auden in December 1938 while he was staying in Brussels, Belgium, with Christopher Isherwood. It was first published under the title "Palais d
Oldmasters Museum
…the Elder is however doubted by experts today. For English-speakers, it is one of the museum's most famous works, if only because of W. H. Auden's poem Musée des Beaux Arts. Numerous copies attributed to Bruegel's son and follower Pieter Bruegel the Younger are part of the collection as well, as are works of Jan Bruegel…
Landscape with the Fall of Icarus in what is now the Oldmasters Museum, Brussels. It is now usually regarded as an early copy of a painting by Pieter Bruegel the Elder
Bruegel,The Census at Bethlehem, 1566, in the same museum
Bruegel, The Massacre of the Innocents, 1565–7