KMSKA - Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp
Grand fine arts museum of Flemish masters, from fifteenth-century altarpieces onward.
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This guide to KMSKA, the Royal Museum of Fine Arts in Antwerp, stands you in front of Rogier van der Weyden's Seven Sacraments, painted in the fourteen forties. It follows Jean Chevrot, a Burgundian bishop who had himself painted into the picture, and the rituals that carried a medieval Christian from the font to the deathbed. Best heard standing close enough to read the faces in the side panels.
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