While the Low Countries formed part of the Spanish Crown from the 16th century, Philip's II's interest in earlier Flemish Primitive paintings meant that the monarch acquired various masterpieces by its most important artists, from Rogier van der Weyden to Bosch, as well as works by later artists such as Patinir.

The museum's many highlights include its collection of " Flemish Primitive " art, works by a wide range of Renaissance and Baroque masters, as well as a selection of paintings from the 18th and 19th century neo-classical and realist periods, milestones of Belgian symbolism and modernism, masterpieces of Flemish expressionism and many items from the city's collection of post-war modern art.

* Adrian Willaert ( c. 1490 – 1562 ), Flemish composer of the Renaissance and founder of the Venetian School

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* Hayne van Ghizeghem ( – 1472 or possibly later ; New Grove says he died between 1472 and 1497 ), Flemish composer of the early Renaissance Burgundian School.

Mol is also home to the SCK • CEN Belgian Nuclear Research Centre, the Flemish institute for technological research ( VITO ) and a European School.

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The Vatican's written description of the diorama said, " The scene for this year's Nativity recalls the painting style of the Flemish School of the 1500s.

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After the Spanish School, the Flemish School is almost comparable to the Italian in terms of quality and quantity.

The Museo del Prado does not possess a work by Jan van Eyck, the greatest master of the Flemish School, but it does have an exceptionally interesting painting entitled The Fountain of Grace executed in the master's workshop by a close pupil.

The French School is the fourth best represented in the Prado after the Spanish, Italian and Flemish.

His portraits are noteworthy for his characteristic use of the three-quarter view, typical of the Flemish School, whereas almost all Italian painters adopted the medal profile pose.

* Gregory Martin, The Flemish School, 1600 – 1900, National Gallery Catalogues, 1970, National Gallery, London, ISBN 0-901791-02-4

Adrian Willaert ( – 7 December 1562 ) was a Flemish composer of the Renaissance and founder of the Venetian School.

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* Hans Memling ( German born-Flemish, 1430 – 1494 ) Flemish artist of the Bruges School

* Frans Snyders ( Flemish, 1578 – 1657 ) Undisputed master of Baroque still life from the Antwerp School

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As a mystical writer he is akin to Hugh and Richard of St Victor, St. Bonaventure, and the writers of the Windesheim School, and in his treatises may be found summed up the doctrine of the Fathers of the Church, especially of Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite, and ofMeister Eckart, Henry Suso, John of Ruysbroeck, and other writers of the German and Flemish Schools.

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In the late 15th century, the French invasion of Italy and the proximity of the vibrant Burgundy court ( with its Flemish connections ) brought the French into contact with the goods, paintings, and the creative spirit of the Northern and Italian Renaissance, and the initial artistic changes in France were often carried out by Italian and Flemish artists, such as Jean Clouet and his son François Clouet and the Italians Rosso Fiorentino, Francesco Primaticcio and Niccolò dell ' Abbate of the ( so-called ) first School of Fontainebleau ( from 1531 ).

Small bronze figures for collector's cabinets, often mythological subjects with nudes, were a popular Renaissance form at which Giambologna, originally Flemish but based in Florence, excelled in the later part of the century, also creating life-size sculptures, of which two joined the collection in the Piazza della Signoria.

The current collection consists of almost 800 paintings and focusses on Dutch and Flemish artists, such as Pieter Brueghel, Paulus Potter, Pieter Paul Rubens, Rembrandt van Rijn, Jacob van Ruisdael, Johannes Vermeer, and Rogier van der Weyden.

As Governor of the Spanish Netherlands he acquired numerous Dutch and Flemish paintings for the Wittelsbach collection.

Bruges also has a very fine collection of medieval and early modern art, including the world-famous collection of Flemish Primitives.

* The Musée des Beaux-Arts has a large collection of Flemish, Italian and French paintings and sculptures.

Some of the most impressive museums in Belgium are The Royal Museum for Fine Arts, in Antwerp, which has an admirable collection of works by Peter Paul Rubens, the Groeningemuseum, in Bruges, with the Flemish Primitives, the MAS ( Museum Aan De Stoom ) wich is located on't eilandje is the biggest museum in Belgium, and the Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium in Brussels, which has a cinema, a concert hall, and artworks of many periods, including a large René Magritte collection.

The interior of the house is generally considered its strongest asset as the Spencer family has assembled an impressive collection of portrait art including several pieces painted by the Flemish master Anthony van Dyck.

Władysław assembled an important collection of Italian and Flemish Baroque paintings, much of which were lost in the wars after his death.

The Flemish painter would become one of his major influences, together with the Venetian masters he would later study in the collection of his patron and friend, the banker Pierre Crozat.

He at one time had the largest private collection of the paintings of Charles Conder in the world and he is a notorious fan of the Flemish symbolist painter Jan Frans De Boever, relishing his role as ' President for Life ' of the De Boever Society.

In its vast collection, are the tapestries of Pastrana, which narrate some of the events in North African conquests, attributed to Nuno Gonçalves ( author of the polyptych in the Monastery of São Vicente de Fora ; a collection of porcelains from the Portuguese East India Company ; a group of Portuguese dinner sets from important factories ( such as Prado, Viana, Rocha Soares and Rato ); and a collection of Flemish tapestries by Peter Paul Rubens, among others.

The museum houses also an important collection of Flemish, Spanish and Portuguese paintings from the 15th to the 18th centuries, among them:

Mansion House is home to The Harold Samuel Collection of Dutch and Flemish Seventeenth Century Paintings, described as " the finest collection of such works to be formed in Britain this century " ( Sutton 1992 ).

In its collection there are engravings by Italian, Dutch, Flemish, German, French, English, Spanish, Swiss, Austrian, Polish, Bulgarian, Belgian, and North American artists.

The French and Italian schools are more broadly represented, forming the main body of the collection, followed by Spanish, Portuguese, Flemish, Dutch, English and German masters.

The collection ranges from 16th century Flemish tapestries to 21st century videos, and includes the world's largest public collection of contemporary Inuit art.