Museum Mayer van den Bergh
{{Short description|Museum in Antwerp, Belgium}}
Image:Mad meg.jpg by Pieter Brueghel the Elder, is one of the masterpieces in the museum.]]
File:Fritz Mayer van den Bergh by Jozef Janssens.jpg, 1901]]
File:16th-century painters - Folio from the Mayer van den Bergh Breviary - WGA15812.jpg, depicting The torture of multiple saints]]
Museum Mayer van den Bergh is a museum in Antwerp, Belgium, housing the collection of the art dealer and collector Fritz Mayer van den Bergh (1858–1901). The major works are from the Gothic and Renaissance period in the Netherlands and Belgium, including paintings by Pieter Brueghel the Elder.
History
Fritz Mayer van den Bergh, born in 1858, collected art for most of his life, making his most expensive and important additions between 1897 and his death in 1901. He was especially interested in art from the 14th to sixteenth century, while his contemporaries considered the Gothic and Renaissance art dated. This fact enabled him to create a collection of 1.000 pieces of mostly Northern Renaissance art. After his death, his mother Henriette Mayer van den Bergh built a neo-gothic house in the banking district of Antwerp between 1901 and 1904, as a museum for the expansive art collection.{{cite news |title=Art: HIDDEN MASTERPIECES: Brueghel's Proverbs |url=http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,864060,00.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110201104349/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,864060,00.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=February 1, 2011 |newspaper=Time |date=12 October 1959 |accessdate=24 September 2009}}
Collection
- The Mayer van den Bergh Breviary, a late 15th-century or early 16th-century illustrated manuscript of 1412 pages, probably made for a rich Portuguese in Antwerp by Simon Bening, Gerard Horenbout and Jan Provost, Flemish miniaturists from the Ghent-Bruges school.
- Pieter Brueghel the Elder: Dulle Griet (Mad Meg or Dull Gret), ca. 1562
- Pieter Brueghel the Elder: Proverbs
- Master Heinrich of Constance, Christ and Saint John Group, 14th century
- Pieter Huys, The Temptation of Saint Anthony, 1577
- Jan Mabuse, Magdalen
- Quentin Matsys, Crucifixion
- a Pleurant, 15th Century.
- [[ Angelo di Puccinelli,"Saints Sebastian and Saint Leonard",14th Century
- {[ Ambrosius Benson,"Saint Jerome"]}
Gallery
File:12th-century painters - Evangeliarum from Saint-Amand Abbey - WGA15832.jpg|Illumination from the 12th century Evangeliary from Saint-Amand Abbey
File:Unknown painter - Virgin and Child Enthroned with Scenes from the Life of the Virgin - WGA23878.jpg|Virgin and Child Enthroned with Scenes from the Life of the Virgin (unknown master, Italian active in the 1270s)
File:Unknown painter - Resurrection - WGA23559.jpg|Resurrection from the Antwerp-Baltimore Quadriptych, ca. 1380
File:Jan Gossaert - Lady Portrayed as Mary Magdalene - WGA09768.jpg|Lady Portrayed as Mary Magdalene by Jan Gossaert dit Mabuse
File:VranckeVanDerStock-Pieta.jpg|Pietà by Vrancke van der Stockt, 15th century
File:Cornelia or Elisabeth Vekemans - de Vos.jpg|Elisabeth Vekemans als meisje by Cornelis de Vos, ca. 1625
File:Willem Claesz. Heda - Still-Life - WGA11243.jpg|Still life by Willem Claeszoon Heda, 1637
File:St Georges à cheval - Musée Mayer Van den Berghe à Anvers.JPG|Statue of Saint George, ca. 1480-1499
Notes
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External links
{{Commons category|Museum Mayer van den Bergh}}
- {{Official website|www.museummayervandenbergh.be/en}}
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Category:Art museums and galleries in Antwerp
Category:Art museums and galleries established in 1904