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3 unusual facts about Flemish painting


Alejo Fernández

Here, influenced by the style of the Flemish masters, he studied perspective and the structure of space.

Flemish painting

Although James Ensor stood apart from his contemporaries, this innovator in 19th-century art significantly influenced such 20th-century artists as Paul Klee, Emil Nolde, George Grosz, Alfred Kubin, Wols, Felix Nussbaum, and other expressionist and surrealist painters of the 20th century.

Loco, Switzerland

The church is also the home of a Last Supper painting by the Flemish painter Godefridus Maes from 1683.


Bartolomé Esteban Murillo

Murillo began his art studies under Juan del Castillo in Seville, he became familiar with Molanus (Ian van der Meulen or Molano) art rules and Flemish painting; the great commercial importance of Seville at the time ensured that he was also subject to influences from other regions.

Blanche Lazzell

Lazzell extended her stay in France and attended lectures at the Louvre concerning Flemish paintings, Dutch art and the Italian Renaissance.


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Frans Francken the Younger

He also invented or popularized several new themes that became popular in Flemish painting, such as genre scenes populated by monkeys (later followed by Jan van Kessel and David Teniers the Younger) and Kunstkamer or gallery paintings displaying a wealth of natural and artistic treasures against a neutral wall.