Flemish art

thumb|The Groeningemuseum, Dijver 12, Bruges thumb|Jan van Eyck's The Madonna with Canon van der Paele is one of the masterpieces of the museum thumb|Joseph Denis Odevaere, Lord Byron on his Death-bed

cathedral in Mechelen, Belgium

thumb|The Smoker, Joos van Craesbeeck

paintings from Flanders from the early 15th century until the 17th century

painting movement

artists active in Antwerp in the 16th and 17th Century

art movement

painting genre

type of composition in Western painting

thumb|right|200px|1657 drawing of the St.-Lievensmonstertoren; planned version on the left, actual tower in the middle, and the accompanying church (burned down in 1832) on the right, with the plan at the top right thumb|right|200px|1975 photograph of the current tower, with the later "Nieuwe Kerk" ("New Church") to the right The Sint-Lievensmonstertoren (English: Saint-Livinus Monster Tower), also known as the Dikke Toren (or Fat Tower) is a 62 metre tall, unfinished, free standing church tower in Zierikzee, Netherlands. The accompanying church was destroyed by a fire in 1832.

16th-18th century society in Antwerp

term in art history for a painting showing a small group of people enjoying themselves

16th-century illuminated manuscript

painting by Jacob Jordaens