Travel Reference
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as if they should mean something,
but they—as well as the title—
only serve to short-circuit your
thoughts when you tr y to make
sense of them. Magritte paints real
objects with photographic clarity,
then jumbles them together in new
and provocative ways.
scenes of bruges
Remember that Jan van Eyck, Petrus Christus, Hans Memling,
Gerard David, Jan Provoost, and possibly Rogier van der Weyden
(for a few years) all lived and worked in Bruges.
In addition, many other artists included scenes of the pictur-
esque city in their art, proving that it looks today much as it did
way back when. Enjoy the many painted scenes of old Bruges as a
slice-of-life peek into the city and its people back in its glory days.
