About Flemish Art
Painting, tapestry, manuscript illumination and printmaking developed within active urban and courtly settings. Religious narratives, portraits, landscapes and still lifes took different forms across periods, with close attention to materials and surfaces appearing in many works. Artistic exchanges connected these centres to other parts of Europe.
Historical Flanders does not map neatly onto every use of the modern geographical term. Flemish, Belgian and Netherlandish attributions can describe different contexts. Follow the wording of an artwork's source record where a more specific regional identity is known.
