The Fall of Icarus by Pieter Bruegel I(1563)

-Bosch and Bruegel Tour President's Diary

-Bosch Gallery

-Bruegel Gallery

-The Problem of the Dog-Legged Gate

-Lapis Documents 1

-Lapis Documents 2

-Lapis Documents 3

-Contact

 

The Pedlar by Hieronymus Bosch (1485), Museum Boymans-van Beuningen, Rotterdam

 

 

 

Crucifixion with a Donor by Hieronymus Bosch (1485), Groeningmuseum, Bruges

 

 

 

 

 

An ancient bridge in lovely, crowded Bruges.

Paul, Scott and Tracy in the Markt, Bruges.

 

 

 

 

 

View from the bell tower in Gent

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Scott and Paul enjoying a delicious lunch in Gent.

Bosch: St. Jerome, Christ Carrying the Cross (detail), Museum voor Shone Kunsten, Gent. 

 

 

Tracy and Scott at a city sponsored graffiti wall, Gent.

Bruegel: Fall of the Rebel Angels (detail), Musee Royaux de Beaux-Arts, Brussels.

 

 

The fascinating Bosch Canal Tours in s'Hertogenbosch included an in boat movie about the paintings!

Statue of Bosch in the center of town with his home (green building) in the background.

 

 

 

Bosch: The Pedlar (aka The Prodigal Son, detail), Bruegel: Tower of Babel (detail), Museum Boymans-van Beuningen, Rotterdam.

It was wonderful to be able to take photographs (flash not allowed) of the paintings.

 

 

 

Joanna, Paul, Tracy and Scott on our final day, the Queen's Day celebration in Amsterdam. The streets were jammed with people and the canals were filled with barges and boats. Everyone wears orange to honor the House of Orange. By the evening all the streets were strewn with broken glass and beer cans.

Bosch Bruegel Hieronymus Bosch and Pieter Bruegel I by Colin Batty

The Bosch and Bruegel Society was founded on a common fondness for the work of the painters Hieronymus Bosch (c.1450 -1516) and Pieter Bruegel I (c.1525 -1569). We are dedicated to the joyous, focused exploration of the worlds bequeathed us in their paintings.

Examples of our inquiries include "The Problem of the Dog-Legged Gate and its Appearance in the Works of Bosch and Bruegel," and the reproduction of The Lapis Documents, undocumented pages from the personal journal of an artist working in the Low Countries during the 16th Century. The Bosch and Bruegel Society topic list is as varied and fantastic as the works of the artists themselves and it leads to a fuller appreciation of their art.

Bosch and Bruegel Tour 2010!

Click here to read the President's Diary

Bruges at Dawn

On April 21, 2010, four members of the Bosch and Bruegel Society flew to Amsterdam for a splendid ten day tour of paintings and historic sites in Belgium and Holland. It included three days in Bruges, two days in Gent, with a day trip to Brussels, half a day in Antwerp, two days in s'Hertogenbosch, half a day in Rotterdam and a final day in Amsterdam. See the President's Diary to plan your own B+B tour. We highly recommend it! The museums are gorgeous, the people are very friendly, the food is delicious, the lodgings are comfortable and the scenery is incredible.