The Mayer Van Den Bergh Museum in Antwerp, Antwerpen.

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Here we see the private collection belonging to art collector Fritz Mayer Van den Bergh (1858-1901). The museum was built in sixteenth-century style after his death. It comprises mainly work from the fourteenth, fifteenth an sixteenth centuries : paintings, sculptures, illuminated manuscripts, stained glass, silverware and earthenware, coins, tapestries and furniture : a world-famous art collection preserved in its entirety.

The real showpiece is ‘Dulle Griet’ or Mad Peg, by Pieter Bruegel the Elder. But there is also work on show by Quinten Matsijs, Jan Mostaert, Joos van Cleve, Jan Bruegel I, Pieter Aertsen, Pieter Huys, Cornelis de Vos, etc.

Some first-rate examples of mediaeval European sculpting complete the collection : the life-size group sculpture entitled ‘John reclining on Jesus’ bosom’ by Heinrich von Konstanz (c 1300), an anonymous ‘Mary and Child’ by a Bruges artist (14th century) and the white marble ‘Head of Bonne de France’ by Jean de Liège (14th century).

Location
Lange Gasthuisstraat 19 - 2000 Antwerp
tel 03/232.42.37

Opening Hours
Every day from 10 a.m. - 5 p.m., except for Mondays and on January 1st and 2nd, May 1st, Ascension Day, November 1st and 2nd, December 25th and 26th

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