{"id":1864,"date":"2004-10-09T19:34:28","date_gmt":"2004-10-10T02:34:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/?p=1864"},"modified":"2009-06-08T21:49:04","modified_gmt":"2009-06-09T04:49:04","slug":"antwerp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/2004\/10\/09\/antwerp\/","title":{"rendered":"Antwerp"},"content":{"rendered":"
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We got up and had a good breakfast and then took a cab to the main art museum, the Koninklijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten<\/a><\/a>. This is a must see museum, as they have some very famous works. The most interesting painting in my opinion was the Virgin and the Child by Jean Fouquet. Fouquet has few surviving works – this one in particular is almost surrealistic in its use of coloration and use of broad geometric shapes for the figure of the Virgin.<\/p>\n

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The facace of the Koninkijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten<\/span><\/span><\/td>\nThe room just past admission is painted in murals
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A column inside the museum <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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Ticket for the museum – there are various front
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Madonna at the Fountain by Jan van Eyck <\/span><\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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A detail from the painting above<\/span><\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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Eve by Lucas Cranach<\/span><\/span><\/td>\nJudith by Jan Metsus <\/span><\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

We walked around and ended up at the Museum Mayer van den Bergh<\/a><\/a>. They had a work by a son of Bosch but photos weren’t allowed and they didn’t have a postcard of that one, but it was worth the visit. I notice a lot of similarity between the fantastic works of Bruegel and Bosch.<\/p>\n

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Ticket for access to the collection <\/span><\/p>\n

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Dulle Griet by Pieter Bruegel the elder<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

We tried to get into the main cathedral, O.-L.-Vrouwekathedraal, but it closes at 3P and we were 15 minutes late.<\/p>\n

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The entrance to the main cathedral in Antwerp<\/span><\/span><\/td>\nA detail from the facade <\/span><\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

We walked across the old market square, Grote Markt<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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A building on the old market square<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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Row houses along the old market <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

We walked around to the Sint Pauluskerk<\/a><\/a>. The woman working behind the desk at our hotel had suggested this church as one worth visiting for its interior.<\/p>\n

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Four busts from inside the church – note the relics in glass under each bust<\/span><\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

We took a train to Brugge – it took about 1 hour, 20 minutes to get there. The hotel was average, the Best Western Premier Hotel Navarra<\/a>; it was named after the consulate for Spanish Navarra that occupied the building before the hotel.<\/p>\n

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Two views of the Antwerp Centraal train station <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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Our train ticket to Brugge<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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We got up and had a good breakfast and then took a cab to the main art museum, the Koninklijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten. This is a must see museum, as they have some very famous works. The most interesting painting in my opinion was the Virgin and the Child by Jean Fouquet. Fouquet has […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[565,564,143,567],"tags":[572,573,574,570,576,575,569,571,577,563],"class_list":["post-1864","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-antwerp","category-belgium","category-travel-foreign","category-vacations","tag-antwerp-centraal-train-station","tag-bosch","tag-jan-metsus","tag-jan-van-eyck","tag-jean-fouquet","tag-koninkijk-museum","tag-koninklijk-museum","tag-lucas-cranach","tag-pieter-bruegel","tag-antwerp-brugge-2004"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s2w3Qj-antwerp","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1864","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1864"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1864\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}