A few months ahead of the “James Ensor. Inspired by Brussels” exhibition, KBR and the Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium (RMFAB) have each acquired a drawing by the artist from Ostend, James Ensor.
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Discover a selection of e-resources before the AIFBD Congress.
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The “Histoire des Idées et Critique Littéraire” database is now available at KBR. It features more […]
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The luxurious “Rijmbijbel” from Brussels is the oldest known illustrated manuscript in Dutch that has been completely preserved. Meet an international masterpiece from the Middle Ages!
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Merel Swemle is studying Dutch language and culture at Leiden University. In this blog post, she takes a closer look at a curious book: the collection manuscript of Johannes de Altre.
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The name Titus Livius (known in English as Livy) is a well-known one today. But how did the work of this Roman historian end up in the Library of the Burgundian Dukes?
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Exceptionally admire Margaret of Austria’s “Basses Danses” manuscript on 3 and 4 December.
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This month, BelgicaPeriodicals reached a symbolic milestone: more than one million digitised pages of Belgian periodicals […]
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Physicist Arno Keppens consults rare and first editions from works by Copernicus, Kepler and Newton kept at KBR.
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KBR’s restoration studio has miraculously discovered a ‘new’ Bruegel print.
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125 years ago, on Monday 16 August 1897, the converted Norwegian sealer ship Belgica left the […]
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The creation of an illuminated manuscript sometimes required several years of preparation. Discover how illuminators transformed their pigments into masterpieces on parchment.
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