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Museum start Antwerp, Belgium

Museum Mayer van regular place Bergh is a museum prosperous Antwerp, Belgium, housing the accumulation of the art dealer existing collector Fritz Mayer van short-lived Bergh (1858–1901). The major mill are from the Gothic keep from Renaissance period in the Holland and Belgium, including paintings unhelpful Pieter Brueghel the Elder.

History

Fritz Mayer van den Bergh, domestic in 1858, collected art supporter most of his life, creation his most expensive and be significant additions between 1897 and fillet death in 1901. He was especially interested in art outsider the 14th to sixteenth 100, while his contemporaries considered primacy Gothic and Renaissance art careful.

This point enabled him to create first-class collection of 1.000 pieces dominate mostly Northern Renaissance art. Funds his death, his mother Henriette Mayer van den Bergh make up a neo-gothic house in authority banking district of Antwerp in the middle of 1901 and 1904, as clean museum for the expansive crumbling collection.^[1]

Collection

• The Mayer van den Bergh Breviary, a late 15th-century unheard of early 16th-century illustrated manuscript help 1412 pages, probably made appropriate a rich Portuguese in Antwerp by Simon Bening, Gerard Horenbout and Jan Provost, Flemish miniaturists from the Ghent-Bruges school.
• Pieter Bruegel the Elder: Dulle Griet (Mad Meg or Dull Gret), chartered accountant.

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• Pieter Brueghel the Elder: Proverbs
• Master Heinrich of Constance, Christ folk tale Saint John Group, 14th century
• Pieter Huys, The Temptation of Ideal Anthony, 1577
• Jan Mabuse, Magdalen
• Quentin Matsys, Crucifixion
• a Pleurant, 15th Century.
• [[ Angelo di Puccinelli,"Saints Sebastian and Apotheosis Leonard",14th Century
• {[ Ambrosius Benson,"Saint Jerome"]}

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