Belgium: Brussels - The Hall Gate and the Marolles
The Halle Gate or Porte de Hal or Hallepoort is a medieval fortified city gate of the second walls of Brussels. It is now a museum, part of the Royal Museums for Art and History.
Built in 1381, Halle Gate is a 14th-century city gate from the second set of defensive walls that enclosed Brussels. The gate was named for the city of Halle in Flemish Brabant which it faces.
While the other six gateways and the defensive walls were demolished, the Halle Gate survived as it was used as a prison. It was at other times used as a customs house, for grain storage, and a Lutheran church.
The architect Henri Beyaert restored the building between 1868 and 1870, changing the austere medieval tower with more romantic Neo Gothic embellishments.
In 1847 the Halle Gate became part of Belgium's Musée Royal d'Armures, d'Antiquités et d'Ethnologie (Museum of Armour, Antiquity and Ethnology), now named the Royal Museums for Art and History.
The Marolles or Marollen (Dutch) is an old district of Brussels, situated between the Law Courts of Brussels (Palace of Justice) and the Brussels-South railway station.
The area now occupied by the Marollen lay, during the Middle Ages, in the first circumvallation of the city of Brussels. Lepers were exiled to this area, and they were cared for by the nuns of Maria Colentes (Marikollen). The toponym Marollen was derived from this religious group. The Marollen became a working class neighbourhood in succeeding centuries.
For the building of the Palace of Justice, a section of the Marollen neighbourhood was demolished.
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BELGIUM: NEW AFRICAN ART EXHIBITION TO START WORLD TOUR
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One of the world's finest collections of African art is about to start a world-wide tour after being set free from the dusty cellars of a museum in Belgium.
The African museum in Brussels opened up its thousands of closets and boxes to shed some daylight on a selection of its collection from Central Africa, a sleeping beauty that for decades never left the enormous building.
Behind the massive pillars, oversize windows and grandiose Louis XVI design of the Royal Museum of Central Africa, something mysterious has lain hidden in the endless dark cellars and attics.
Filled with the finest African art objects, many from Belgium's former colony, Zaire, the labyrinth of rooms had been closed off from the public for almost a century.
But a new management team has blown the dust away and put some of its quarter of a million artefacts on display, with great success.
Under the banner headline Sleeping Beauty, the American magazine 'Newsweek' called the museum a stunning trove of Africana.
Early next year the special exhibits will begin a two year tour around the world, making stops at the Smithsonian in Washington and the New York Museum of African Art.
The exhibition has finally brought the Belgian museum international recognition.
Visitors have found their way back.
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The museum was considered, especially for human scientists, more or less.., and for cultural anthropology, more or less as a museum that was a bit in a kind of a deep winter sleep, hibernation. Well it became awake, it becomes full of activities.
SUPER CAPTION: Dirk Thys van den Audenaerde, Director of the Museum
The new management found it difficult to convince its conservative art experts to open up the museum's reserves to the outside world.
The team persevered, and 250 selected objects, mainly masks and statuettes, were taken out of the back rooms.
These masterpieces are now displayed in state-of-the-art climatised boxes in a renovated wing of the expansive museum, in the midst of a huge park on the outskirts of the Belgian capital.
With the highlighting of this African art, attention was drawn to Belgium's murky colonial past.
But the museum officials stress that many of these art pieces were either collected on scientific expeditions in the Congolese forests or obtained through legacies.
Now the public outside Belgium, initially in the United States, will have the chance to enjoy these objects.
The sleeping beauty of the Brussels museum has finally come out of the darkness.
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Museum of African art reopens (Belgium) - BBC News - 8th December 2018
Opening after being closed for years, exhibits aim to address the brutal colonial past, but some think it doesn't go far enough and things should go back to there country of origin, in this edit.
90% of all African art is held abroad in other countries.
MUSEUM OF ANATOLIAN CIVILIZATIONS
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BELvue Museum - The Best in Heritage 2010
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VATICAN CITY MUSEUMS TOUR GUIDE - MUST SEE IN ROME ITALY
THE VATICAN MUSEUMS ROME
Close to St Peter's Basilica are the corridors of the Vatican Museums that attract 4 million people every year from all over the world. A marvelous journey that will take us through a constellation of 13 museums and see some of the greatest treasures of humanity.
They present the preserved and extraordinary legacy of culture, history, and beauty that the Roman Pontiffs have collected and preserved for centuries: this is the mission of the Vatican Museums today.
The Vatican Museums are plural as they are a complex of different collections, all extraordinarily important. Egyptian, Etruscan, Greek and Roman, Christian, and epigraphic, paintings of several centuries and the great Renaissance of Raphael and Michelangelo in the “Rooms” and the Sistine Chapel. And then there are the decorative arts, the ethnological collections, the historical collections, the carriages and the papal berlins, up to modern and contemporary art.
A dynamic museum where tradition and innovation find a perfect synthesis, able to render concrete what the Roman Church has pursued for centuries in her cultural institutions.
Tradition, to be dated back to Pope Julius II, to that 1506 which saw the creation of the “Courtyard of the Statues”, the most celebrated in Rome at the time, in the heart of the Vatican Belvedere. Then, the great museum era of the eighteenth century, passing through Canova and reaching, with Pope Pius XI in the aftermath of the Lateran Treaty of 1929, an organic and effective institutional order for the Museums, made accessible to the world via the portal opened in the Vatican Walls. Tradition that is protection, restoration, conservation and enhancement of the collections through study, research, teaching, international projects, conferences and exhibitions.
Innovation, which is indispensable today for the functioning of an Institution that receives millions of visitors each year, and where thousands of people, employees and collaborators, work every day. Innovation that enables the Museums collections to be appreciated in a dynamic and current way, and which through this new web site enables the most remote places of our world to be reached.
It is my hope that every visitor who enters the Vatican Museums is pervaded by that sense of privilege at finding oneself inside the Beauty that leads to Faith, and that this digital tool may also be a vehicle for knowledge, harmony and spirituality.
Pinecone Courtyard. The pinecone fountain is made out of bronze and was found near the Pantheon but was originally on top of Hadrian's mausoleum, water use to pour out of the scales.
The 2 bronze peacocks on each side also came from the Mausoleum.
Sphere within a Sphere.
The Octagonal court was the first of the museum palaces built by Pope Julius II. The statue of Apollo was the first statue in 1503 and later Popes added to the collection.
God of the Tiber River,
Laocoon group Statue.
Sala Rotonda was modeled after the Pantheon.
Floor is paved with a roman mosaic.
Bathtub of Nero Made of porphyry.
Bronze Statue of Hercules.
Juno Queen of the Gods and protectress of women.
Sala of Croce Greca.
The Sarcophagi of Helena and Constantina are two fourth century porphyry sarcophagi.
The Gallery of tapestry; Flemish tapestries, realized in Brussels by Pieter van Aelst’s School from drawings by Raphael’s pupils, during the pontificate of Clement VII (1523-1534), hang on the walls. They were first shown in the Sistine Chapel in 1531.
Gallery of Maps....
Raphael Rooms...
Sala di Constantino... Battle against Maxentius.... in this sign conquer
Stanza di Eliodoro.
St Peter in Chains being freed by the Angel.
The Room of the Segnatura contains Raphael's most famous frescoes. Besides be
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Gustav III's Museum of Antiquities at the Stockholm Royal Palace (Stockholm, Sweden)
I visited Gustav III's Museum of Antiquities, Sweden's oldest public art museum. It contains a collection of sculptures that King Gustav III of Sweden collected over the years. It is located in the Stockholm Royal Palace - in the Old Town (Gamla Stan) of Stockholm, Sweden. Shot in July 2018.
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Sand sculptures representing world monuments on display
(28 May 2010)
1. Wide of coastline
2. Pan of entrance to Sand Sculpture Festival
3. Tourists looking at sculptures
4. Tilt down sculpture of a Chinese building to the sculptor working on it
5. Sphinx head sculpture
6. Spanish sculptor Benjamin Probanza at work
7. Visitors watching
8. Close of girl watching
9. Close of Aztec temple sculpture
10. Pull out of Aztec pyramid, severed head at foot
11. SOUNDBITE: (Spanish) Benjamin Probanza, Spanish sand sculptor:
There is no specific difficulty because when you love your work, when you are passionate about it, there is no real difficulty. But now this is true, that this is an ephemeral material so it can be difficult to manipulate.
12. Visitors walking through exhibit
13. Close of sand sculpture cowboy and Hollywood sign behind
14. Low angle of visitors walking through exhibition
15. Woman takes photograph
16. Wide of woman
17. Sand sculpture of women in burqas
18. Wide of sculptures of burqas and the Mecca Kabah
19. Pull focus of statues
20. Tiger eating man sculpture
21. Pushchair and baby pass Vitruvius man Da Vinci sculpture behind
22. Wide of sculptor Irina Sokolova
23. Various Sokolova at work
24. SOUNDBITE (French) Irina Sokolova, head of the sculptor teams:
The action of the sea turns sand round. But quarry sand has a cube, or star shape, so if we humidify it and compact it, it sticks together and it won't run, it will always stay like this.
25. Close of statue of late Pope, John Paul II
26. Wide of visitors
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One of the world's most famous sand sculpture festivals opened to the public on Friday in the Belgian seaside town of Blankenberge.
This year the exhibition is entitled Around The World and visitors can see more than 170 sand sculptures of some of the modern wonders of the world.
40 sculptors from 40 different countries worked for 28 days straight to be able to open on time.
2,400 tonnes of sand were needed for the exhibition and although Blankenberge boasts some fine beaches, the sand was actually brought in from a quarry near Brussels.
The action of the sea turns sand round. But quarry sand has a cube, or star shape, so if we humidify it and compact it, it sticks together and it won't run, explained head sculptor, Irina Sokolova.
The festival runs until end of August, and is expecting more that 150 000 visitors over the next three months.
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The market with traditional African art (Documentary, 2015)
The film takes us to a journey of discovery in museums and galleries, of the everyday objects and the cult ones, of the mysterious fetishes and masks – of the art of our neighbouring continent. We follow artworks from Africa in fashionable galleries, in safes of the ethnography and anthropology museums and in private houses from passionate collectors. The art market turns often collectors into calculating speculators. New is transforming old art from Africa into financial investment. The market for traditional African art booms worldwide. Individual works reached millions at auctions. The film searches for traces from poor carvers in West Africa till in fashionable exhibitions from gallerists in Brussels and Paris. Finally, historical aware Africans accuse museum directors of looting art.
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Original title: Black market's masquerade - Ancient African art
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Luc Tuymans, Professor of Art at The European Graduate School / EGS talking about theory of the image and his artwork. Free public open lecture for the students of the Division of Philosophy, Art & Critical Thought at the European Graduate School EGS, Saas-Fee, Switzerland. 2015.
Luc Tuymans (b. 1958) is a Belgian artist living and working in Antwerp. Tuymans began his studies in fine art at the Sint-Lukasinstituut in Brussels in 1976. Tuymans continued to study painting at the École Nationale Supérieure des Arts Visuels de la Cambre, Brussels, and then the Koninklijke Academie voor Schone Kunsten in Antwerp until 1982. He subsequently studied art history at Vrije Universiteit in Brussels until 1986—during which time Tuymans abandoned painting and began experimenting with film and video. He relaunched his practice and career in painting by staging the exhibition Belgian Art Review in a disused swimming pool of the Palais des Thermes in Ostend, Belgium.
Tuymans has since been exhibited widely throughout the world. He was first invited to show his work at documenta in 1992, and he represented Belgium at the Venice Biennale in 2001. In 1994, he was one of the first artists to be represented in the art market by David Zwirner Gallery in New York City, one year after it opened; an exhibition of Tuymans' works also inaugurated the gallery's expansion to London in 2012. He is currently also being represented by Zeno X Gallery in Antwerp.
Alongside numerous group and solo exhibitions, his work has also been the focus of several retrospectives at international art institutions in Europe and the United States, as well as having works held by public museum collections, including the Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst, Antwerp; the Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst, Ghent, Belgium; the Tate Gallery, London; the Museum für Moderne Kunst in Frankfurt; the Pinakothek der Moderne in Munich; the Centre Pompidou, Paris; and, in the United States: the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York; the Art Institute of Chicago; The Museum of Modern Art in New York; and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.
Tuymans has also worked as curator, organizing a series of exhibitions bringing together art from Belgium and China, as well as guest-curating the first Bruges Central Art Festival. He was also a guest tutor at the Rijksakademie van beeldende Kunsten in Amsterdam, where he mentored a number of painters. Tuymans has received honorary doctorates from the University of Antwerp (in 2006) and the University of Arts in Poznań, Poland (2014). The Belgian government honored him by bestowing upon him the title of Commander, Order of Leopold, in 2007. In 2013, Tuymans also received the American Foundation for AIDS Research (amfAR) Award of Excellence for Artistic Contributions to the Fight Against AIDS in recognition of his continuous support of amfAR 's programs.
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This former home and studio of Peter Paul Rubens was rescued and restored in 1937 and is now an attraction dedicated to the Flemish Baroque painter. Save time for the gardens.
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Daily tours take place in English, French, German, Italian and Spanish from mid-July to August; the rest of the year, take your own stroll through the splendour of the Cathedral.
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Design nerds will appreciate this UNESCO Word Heritage Site, honoring printers Christophe Plantin and Jan Moretus. It's the place to be if you’re interested in classic typography.
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One of the coolest buildings in Antwerp, it's also the city's biggest museum, so leave plenty of time to explore the collections, including maritime history and ethnography.
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Fritz Mayer van den Bergh was the Charles Saatchi of his time, collecting more than 3,000 works of art, regularly curated here. Entrance is included with admission to Rubenshuis.
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Closed for refurnishment until 2018, this historic museum will be buzzing when it reopens. Until then, see the website for touring collections at nearby locations.
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It may be less famous than its Bruges or Ghent counterparts, but this understated site is like a secret garden in the heart of Antwerp. Ideal for a quiet hour between museums.
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This cool space can be recognised instantly by the huge ‘HK’ painted on the corner. It boasts a permanent collection of contemporary pieces from Belgian and international artists.
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The Japanese Exhibition At The British Museum,LondonThe origins of the British Museum lie in the will of the physician, naturalist and collector, Sir Hans Sloane (1660-1753). Sloane wanted his collection of more than 71,000 objects, library and herbarium to be preserved intact after his death. He bequeathed it to King George II for the nation in return for payment of £20,000 to his heirs. If refused, the collection was to be offered to centres of learning abroad. A large and influential group of Trustees was charged with overseeing the disposition of his estate.
The King had little interest but Parliament, led by the Speaker, Arthur Onslow, was persuaded to accept the gift. An Act of Parliament establishing the British Museum received the royal assent on 7 June 1753. This stated that the funds for the purchase and storage of the collections should be raised by public lottery.
The Cotton collection of manuscripts, given to the nation in 1700, was attached to the new museum and £10,000 was expended on the purchase of the Harleian collection of manuscripts. A new Board of Trustees was established.
The foundation collections largely consisted of books, manuscripts and natural history with some antiquities (including coins and medals, prints and drawings) and ethnography (the study of cultures). In 1757 King George II donated the 'Old Royal Library' of the sovereigns of England and with it the privilege of copyright receipt.
The Museum was first housed in a seventeenth-century mansion, Montagu House, in Bloomsbury on the site of today's building. On 15 January 1759 the British Museum opened to the public. With the exception of two World Wars, when parts of the collection were evacuated, it has remained open ever since, gradually increasing its opening hours and moving from an attendance of 5,000 per year to today's 5 million.
From its beginnings the British Museum was a new type of institution. Governed by a body of Trustees responsible to Parliament, its collections belonged to the nation, with free admission for all. Entry was given to 'all studious and curious Persons, linking public enjoyment with education.
Access to the library and information on the collections has always been available through the Reading Room. The first students' room, Prints & Drawings, opened in 1808.
The first famous antiquities, Sir William Hamilton's collection of Greek vases and other classical objects, were purchased in 1772. These were followed by such high profile acquisitions as the Rosetta Stone and other antiquities from Egypt (1802), the Townley collection of classical sculpture (1805), and the sculptures of the Parthenon, known as the Elgin Marbles (1816).
As the natural history collections and the library expanded, Montagu House was rapidly outgrown. In 1823 the gift to the nation by George IV of his father's library (the King's Library) lead to the construction of today's quadrangular building designed by Sir Robert Smirke (1780-1867). The first phase was completed in 1852. Construction of the round Reading Room followed, designed by Robert's brother Sydney (1798-1877, and positioned in the central courtyard in 1854-7.
African Art - The Market of Masks (Documentary of 2015)
The film takes us to a journey of discovery in museums and galleries, of the everyday objects and the cult ones, of the mysterious fetishes and masks – of the art of our neighbouring continent. We follow artworks from Africa in fashionable galleries, in safes of the ethnography and anthropology museums and in private houses from passionate collectors. The art market turns often collectors into calculating speculators. New is transforming old art from Africa into financial investment. The market for traditional African art booms worldwide. Individual works reached millions at auctions. The film searches for traces from poor carvers in West Africa till in fashionable exhibitions from gallerists in Brussels and Paris. Finally, historical aware Africans accuse museum directors of looting art.
Original title: Black market's masquerade - Ancient African art
A film by Peter Heller
© 2015, Lizenz Filmkraft Peter Heller
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