'Een zekere vergelijking onderling': de kunsttentoonstellingen

Various art exhibitions were organized in the context of the Ghent World Fair (1913), just as for other Fairs since 1855. These were devoted to past and present artworks, from regional, national and international artists. The exhibition ‘Oude Kunst in Vlaanderen’ (Ancient Art in Flanders), in the Museum of Fine Arts, aimed to give an impression of past living conditions and customs in Flanders via the ‘proper’ artistic past, from the Middle Ages to the eighteenth century, focusing not on painting but on other artistic disciplines in which Flemish artists and artisans excelled in earlier days,... Mehr ...