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Allen Grant. Cities of Belgium
Cities of Belgium
Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION
HOW TO USE THESE GUIDEBOOKS
ORIGINS OF THE BELGIAN TOWNS
ORDER OF THE TOUR
i. BRUGES
A. ORIGINS OF BRUGES
B. THE HEART OF THE CITY
C. THE HOSPITAL OF ST. JOHN
D. THE TOWN IN GENERAL
E. THE CHURCHES
F. THE ACADEMY
ii. GHENT
A. ORIGINS OF GHENT
B. THE CORE OF GHENT
C. THE CATHEDRAL
D. THE OUTSKIRTS
iii. BRUSSELS
A. ORIGINS OF BRUSSELS
B. THE HEART OF BRUSSELS
C. THE PICTURE GALLERY
D. THE CATHEDRAL
E. THE UPPER TOWN
F. SURROUNDINGS
iv. ANTWERP
A. ORIGINS OF ANTWERP
B. THE CATHEDRAL
C. THE PICTURE GALLERY
D. THE TOWN IN GENERAL
v. HISTORICAL NOTES
INDEX
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Grant Allen
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Yet the one great point for the tourist to bear in mind is really this—that the art of the Flemish towns is essentially the art of a group of burgher communities. It is frankly commercial, neither royal nor aristocratic. In its beginnings it develops a strictly municipal architecture, with a school of painters who aimed at portraiture and sacred panel pictures. After the Reformation had destroyed sacred art in Holland, painting in that part of the Netherlands confined itself to portraits and to somewhat vulgar popular scenes: while in Belgium it was Italianised, or rather Titianised and Veronesed, by Rubens and his followers. But in its best days it was national, local, and sacred or personal.
Take Conway’s “Early Flemish Artists” with you in your portmanteau, and read over in the evening his account of the works you have seen during the day.
