. The spell of Flanders; an outline of the history, legends and art of Belgium's famous northern provinces, being the story of a twentieth century pilgrimage in a sixteenth century land just before the outbreak of the great war . id re-ligious edifices with which the city is so amplyprovided, and it was during the reign of Mar-garet that these structures were completed anddecorated. Among the beautiful buildings ex-ecuted during this period may be mentionedthe Belfry at Bruges, the tower of St. Eom-baut, the Hotel de Ville at Ghent, the spire ofthe cathedral at Antwerp, the cathedral of
. The spell of Flanders; an outline of the history, legends and art of Belgium's famous northern provinces, being the story of a twentieth century pilgrimage in a sixteenth century land just before the outbreak of the great war . id re-ligious edifices with which the city is so amplyprovided, and it was during the reign of Mar-garet that these structures were completed anddecorated. Among the beautiful buildings ex-ecuted during this period may be mentionedthe Belfry at Bruges, the tower of St. Eom-baut, the Hotel de Ville at Ghent, the spire ofthe cathedral at Antwerp, the cathedral of at Brussels, and many minor churchesthroughout the Low Countries. Margaret displayed rare taste for works ofart, and her palace was a veritable treasurehouse of masterpieces, as an inventory pre-pared at her direction shows. One of the mostfamous of these was the portrait of JeanArnolfini and his wife by Jean Van Eyck,which — after many vicissitudes — has nowfound a. permanent resting place in the Na-tional Gallery at London, unless some militantsuffragette adds another chapter to its cheq-uered history. Another treasure has beenless fortunate, namely the portrait of Lahelle Portugalaise, wife of Philip the Good,. PORTRAIT OF JEAN ARNOLPINI AND HIS WIFE BY JEAN VAN EYCK. Malines and Margaret of Austria 341 which was painted h^ Jean Van Eyck undercircumstances already described in anotherchapter. This famous picture disappearedduring the religious wars and has never beendiscovered. The inventory lists a great manyother paintings, of which some are still in ex-istence and some have been lost. The descrip-tions are often quaint and charming, and mayhave been dictated by the Duchess herself, asfor example: Une petite Nostre-Dame di-sant ses heures, faicte de la main de Michel(Coxcie) que Madame appelle sa mignonne etle petit dieu dort/ and Ung petit paradisou sont touxs les apotres. Other artists ofnote in the collection were Bernard Van Orley,Hans Memling, Eoger Van der W
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