Belgium and Luxembourg (Eyewitness Travel Guides)

ANTWERP 153

. Saint Barbara (1437)
Jan van Eyck’s painting of St
Barbara, in tones of grey, shows
her sitting in front of a huge
Gothic cathedral tower still
under construction. A
prayer book lies open
on her lap.

KEY

15th-century paintings

16th-century paintings

16th–18th-century sketches

17th-century paintings

19th-century sculpture

19th-century paintings

19th-century salon

20th-century paintings

Temporary exhibitions

Museum history

Non-exhibition space

Woman Ironing

by Rik Wouters

. The Lance
(1620)
One of Pieter
Paul Rubens’s
best-known reli-
gious masterpieces,
this painting displays
a remark able free-
dom of composition.

The Lamentation over the

Dead Christ (1629)

Anthony van Dyck painted several

versions of this subject, with different

notes of emotional intensity in each.

VISITORS’ CHECKLIST

Leopold de Waelplaats 1–9.

Tel (03) 2387809. @ 1, 23, 290.

v 4, 8, 12, 24. & 9 7 -

= http://www.kmska.be

Note: The museum will be

closed to the public for

renovation until the end of 2014.

Some of its artworks will be

relocated to and displayed

at other museums in Antwerp.

STAR PAINTINGS

. Woman Ironing
. Saint Barbara
. The Lance