Despite its size, Belgium has a long and distinguished artistic tradition that goes back to the Middle Ages, considerably pre-dating the foundation of the current state in 1830.
Art from the areas making up modern Belgium is called in English Netherlandish up to the separation with the Netherlands from 1570 on, and Flemish until the 18th century.
Important monasteries in Belgium were centres of production in Carolingian art and Ottonian art, and later the area producing Romanesque Mosan art is now largely in Belgium.
Flanders became one of the richest areas in Europe in the later Middle Ages and Early Netherlandish painting produced work for both the wealthy townspeople as well as the courtiers of the Duke of Burgundy.
In the Renaissance Antwerp Mannerism was an early attempt by Flemish artists to respond to Italian Renaissance art, with Romanism a later phase.
Dutch and Flemish Renaissance painting culminated in the work of Pieter Bruegel the Elder in one direction, and the Flemish contribution to Northern Mannerism in a very different one.
Flemish Baroque painting is dominated by the figure of Rubens, though like his pupil Anthony van Dyck, he spent much of his career abroad.
There was also a great development of specialized genres in painting, paralleling those in Dutch Golden Age painting to the north, but with many differences.
List of Belgian Artists and artistic movements definition
Paul Delvaux (1897-1994) | Surrealist painter
Olivier Lamboray, 1968 | Surrealist painter
Emile Claus | Genre painting
Evariste Carpentier | Genre / Luminist painter
Rogier Van Der Weyden | The Descent from the Cross, c. 1435
René Magritte | Surrealist painter
Christiane Vleugels, 1963 | Photorealistic painter
René Miessen (1911-2000) | Symbolist painter
Fernand Toussaint | Post-Impressionist painter | Portrait and Figure
Jean Beauduin | Genre painter
Edward Portielje | Genre painter
Petrus van Schendel | Genre / Romantic painter
Jacques François Carabain | Romantic Cityscape painter
Firmin Baes | Portrait / Figurative painter
Jérôme Birti, 1988 | Abstract Portrait painter
Roland Palmaerts, 1953 | Watercolour Cityscape painter
Belgian Artists | Sitemap
Johan Messely, 1927 | The Secret Gardens
Camille Lambert | Post Impressionist painter
Andrée Bienfait, 1956 | Figurative pastel painter
Christiane Vleugels, 1963 | Timeless
Charles Leickert | Romantic Landscape painter
Museum Masterpieces [Part.4]
Olga Gouskova, 1974 ~ Figurative painter
René Magritte ~ Gli Aforismi
Frédéric Dufoor, 1943
Cris Pereby ~ Figurative sculptor
Julien Stappers | Still life with Flowers painter
Michail Lermontov / René Magritte | I Go Out On The Road Alone / Sulla strada esco solo.
Jasmine Le Nozac'h, 1970 | Abstract painter
Théodore Gérard | Genre painter
Pedro Salinas & Jean Delville ~ L'Invito
Jacques Van Den Abeele, 1960 ~ Figurative sculptor
Rogier Van Der Weyden | Northern Renaissance painter
Théo Van Rysselberghe | Neo-Impressionist painter
Théo Van Rysselberghe | Pointillist painter
Théo Van Rysselberghe (1862-1926)
Fernand Toussaint ~ Post-Impressionist painter | Still Life
Ben Heine 1983 ~ Digital Surrealist painter
Ben Goossens 1945 ~ Surrealist photographer | Part. 2
Michele Van Cotthem, 1939
Ben Goossens, 1945 ~ Surrealist photographer
Emile Claus | Luminist / Genre painter
Alfred Stevens ~ Academic Classical painter
Christine Comyn, 1957
Tomasyn De Winter
Pol Ledent, 1952
August Gillé | Symbolist painter
Jean-Claude Dresse, 1946 | Visionary painter
Jean-François Portaels ~ Orientalist painter
Stéphane Heurion
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Nonostante le sue dimensioni, il Belgio ha una lunga e distinta tradizione artistica che risale al Medioevo, considerevolmente prima della fondazione dello stato attuale nel 1830.
L'arte delle aree che compongono il Belgio moderno è chiamata in inglese olandese fino alla separazione con i Paesi Bassi dal 1570 in poi e fiammingo fino al XVIII secolo.
Importanti monasteri in Belgio erano centri di produzione nell'arte carolingia e nell'arte ottoniana, e in seguito l'area che produceva l'arte romanica di Mosan si trova ora in gran parte in Belgio.
Le Fiandre sono diventate una delle aree più ricche d'Europa nel tardo Medioevo e la prima pittura olandese ha prodotto lavoro sia per i ricchi cittadini che per i cortigiani del Duca di Borgogna.
Nel Rinascimento di Anversa il manierismo fu un primo tentativo degli artisti fiamminghi di rispondere all'arte rinascimentale italiana, con il romanismo in una fase successiva.
La pittura rinascimentale olandese e fiamminga culminò nell'opera di Pieter Bruegel il Vecchio in una direzione e il contributo fiammingo al manierismo nordico in un'altra.
La pittura barocca fiamminga è dominata dalla figura di Rubens, anche se come il suo allievo Anthony van Dyck, ha trascorso gran parte della sua carriera all'estero.
C'è stato anche un grande sviluppo di generi specializzati nella pittura, parallelamente a quelli della pittura olandese dell'età dell'oro a nord, ma con molte differenze.
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Theo van Rysselberghe (Belgian Pointillist Painter, 1862-1926)
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