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Olivia of Palermo (Italian: Oliva dì Palermo, Sicilian: Uliva di Palermu), Palermo, 448 – Tunis, 10 June 463, [3] [4] while according to another tradition she is supposed to have lived in the late 9th century AD in the Muslim Emirate of Sicily [5] [6] is a Christian virgin-martyr who was venerated as a local patron saint of Palermo, Sicily, since the Middle Ages, as well as in the Sicilian ...
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 .
Museum Mayer van den Bergh, Antwerp Dulle Griet ( anglicized as Dull Gret ), also known as Mad Meg , is a figure of Flemish folklore who is the subject of a 1563 oil-on-panel by Flemish renaissance artist Pieter Bruegel the Elder .
The Mayer van den Bergh Breviary is a 16th-century illuminated manuscript, a breviary, currently in the collections of Museum Mayer van den Bergh in Antwerp. The book was made at the beginning of the 16th century and belongs to a small group of luxurious manuscripts made in Flanders at this time.
ModeMuseum Antwerpen; Museum aan de Stroom; Museum Mayer van den Bergh; Museum of Contemporary Art, Antwerp; P. Plantin–Moretus Museum; R. Snijders&Rockox House;
Van Ertborn had collected Early Netherlandish art at a time when it was out of favour, but in the long run this addition ensured the museum's reputation. These works included Jan van Eyck's Saint Barbara and Madonna at the Fountain and Rogier van der Weyden's Portrait of Philip de Croy (half of a diptych) and the Seven Sacraments Altarpiece ...
It was rediscovered in 1986 by a British collector, who acquired it for his private collection. He learned of the existence of the other four portraits through specialist art historical publications [3] and in 2006 offered to sell his work to the Museum Mayer van den Bergh to rejoin the other four works. However, the museum's founder had ...
Henriëtte Mayer-van den Bergh (9 July 1838 – 27 March 1920) was a Belgian museum founder, known for commissioning the building and establishing Museum Mayer van den Bergh, which she curated until her death. She was the daughter of the Antwerp senator Jean Félix Van den Bergh who ran the “La Cloche” brewery with his brother Maximilien. [1]