Tag: museums

  • 15. Painting Velvet

    15. Painting Velvet

    by Sophia Feist Cover Image & Fig. 1 – Jan van Eyck, The Virgin and Child with Canon van der Paele, oil on wood, 141 x 176.5 cm, Groeningemuseum, Bruges (Photo: Wikimedia Commons) One of my favorite paintings is Jan van Eyck’s The Virgin and Child with Canon van der Paele (1434-1436). One of my…

  • 16. The Museum of Broken Relationships

    16. The Museum of Broken Relationships

    by Beatrice Leeming Tourists to Zagreb might be tempted by its medieval Old Town or its Gothic Cathedral. They might come for its award-winning Christmas market, or, in the summer, for re-enactments of medieval conflicts put on by the Order of The Silver Dragon. Round the corner from the players, an increasing number have headed…