Go to the main content
Discover season 2024/25 from 25 April on our website.
Logo Concertgebouw Brugge
Logo Concertgebouw Brugge

Dufay, the Arnolfinis and Jan van Eyck

Course

  • Dufay, de Arnolfini’s en Jan van Eyck

this event is part of

GOLD 2020

Tue 19 May 2020 -10.00
Moved
Hof van Watervliet
start 10.00
expected end time 16.45
All prices include booking fees.

A dip into art history

15th-century trade between Bruges and northern Italy brought wealth to Bruges and its merchants, and where there is wealth, there is art. The Arnolfinis, an influential merchant family from the Tuscan city Lucca, for instance, played a central role in the creation of two indisputable masterpieces of Western art: Jan van Eyck’s portrait of Giovanni di Nicolao Arnolfini and his wife and Guillaume Dufay’s composition L'homme armé. Art historian Kathleen Joris and polyphony specialist Hendrik Vanden Abeele tell us all about these exceptional works of art, their creators and the man who connects the two.

performers

Kathleen Joris: lecturer
Hendrik Vanden Abeele: lecturer
(in Dutch)

Tue 19 May 2020 -10.00
Moved
Hof van Watervliet
start 10.00
expected end time 16.45
All prices include booking fees.