Bruges - Old Flemish Painting

Bruges was the center of the Old Flemish School of painters. Here Jan van Eyck painted his famous "Adoration of the Mystic Lamb", the centerpiece of the polyptych for Sint-Baafskathedraal in Ghent, and near here Hugo van der Goes (1440-82), a native of Ghent, lived and died, leaving his most famous work "The Death of the Virgin" to the city. Together with van Eyck's "Madonna and the donor, Canon van der Paele", it now hangs in the Groeninge Museum.

The painter most closely associated with Bruges however is Hans Memling (1435-94). Born near Mainz he settled in the town from 1465 onwards. Some of his greatest works can be seen in the Memling Museum housed in the 12th C. Sint-Jansspitaal. Gerard David (1460-1523), a pupil of Memling's