Panoramas to explore
4 panoramas
The Virtuous Women · Lambert Lombard Room
Lambert Lombard · vers 1530-1550
Guide :
Four paintings, four heroines who change the course of history. On the left, Jael raises her mallet over sleeping Sisera. These are the only paintings securely attributed to Lambert Lombard, the great introducer of the Italian Renaissance to Liège — painted for the humanist nuns of Herkenrode, lost from sight for almost two centuries, rediscovered in 1989 in the museum's reserves. What would you like to explore?
The Virgin and Child with a Reading Virgin
Atelier de Pieter Coecke van Aelst · vers 1535
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It is not the Child who reads, it is the Virgin. She deciphers a Latin parchment where one reads 'our father Abraham', while the Child grips an apple — the Fall in the Redeemer's hand. The composition comes from a lost original by Jan Gossaert, which Coecke's Antwerp workshop multiplied. What strikes you first?
The Liège Bernini · Jean Del Cour Room
Jean Del Cour (1627-1707) · seconde moitié du XVIIe siècle
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A whole room for a single sculptor. Jean Del Cour spent nearly ten years in Rome with Bernini, then returned to Liège in 1657 and founded the Liège Baroque school. Around you, his angels and Virgins with their swirling drapery, and in the cases his terracotta bozzetti — the master's hand caught in the act. Where shall we begin?
The Curtius at Night
Jean Curtius (commanditaire) · architecte mosan · 1597-1605 · vue de nocturne contemporaine
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The inner courtyard of the Grand Curtius, on a museum-night evening. The palace in red brick and Namur limestone, built for gunpowder merchant Jean Curtius between 1597 and 1605, glows under warm floodlights. A ribbon of candles on the ground. To the right, the contemporary gallery added in 2009. By day, you cross this courtyard in passing; tonight you stop. What would you like to look at: the archetype of Mosan style, the museum-night occasion, or what the dark brings out?
