Becoming immortal, using a broad range of colours.

Cathedral of Our Lady is one of the most striking architectural marvels you will encounter in Tournai www.tournai.be, offering a mix of Romanesque and Gothic designs. Its centerpiece is the Shrine of Our Lady (a 1205 gold-sculpted reliquary). Among the collection the Museum of Fine Arts holds today, are paintings from the 15th century to 17th and 18th-century masterpieces. Head to Tournai’s higher point at Mont-Saint-Aubert it is the starting point of many hiking trails. There are also several restaurants. Do not forget, breathing under this sky, that its brightness inspired the creativity of a great painter.

His expressive painting and popular religious conceptions had considerable influence on European painting. His fame lasted until the 17th century, due to changing taste. He was highly internationally famous in his lifetime. Born in Tournai around 1400, he was a painter whose works consist mainly of religious triptychs and commissioned single and diptych portraits. ROGIER VAN DER WEYDEN. Today, with Robert Campin and van Eyck, he is the most influential Northern painter of the 15th century. In Brussels, you can admire his Pietà, at the Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium.

He introduced new religious iconography in his painting, where he combined half-portraits of the Madonna with portraits of people in prayer. There are few certain facts of his life. While he is know for his expressive pathos and naturalism, all of his forms are rendered with warm colourisation. ROGER VAN DER WEYDEN portraits tend to be half half profile. His artistic contribution lies in rendering of the soul’s expression through emotions. In 1426, he the daughter of a Brussels shoemaker, they had four children. The family settled in Brussels, where the two younger children were born, to become a painter and a goldsmith.

After his apprenticeship, he was master of the Tournai Guild of St Luke. He is mentioned in historical records in 1427. Many of his most important works were destroyed during the late 17th century. Moved to Brussels, ROGIER VAN DER WEYDEN established his reputation for his technical skill and emotional use of line and colour. His 1435 Deposition, still considered his masterpiece, made him one of the most influential artists in northern Europe. He died in Brussels, into a June day, 1464. His Chevrot Altarpiece, waiting for you into the Antwerpen Koninklijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten.

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