The Stay At Home Museum

Curated videos from museums in Flanders

Student Directions: Write 20 facts about any video for a 1-Day Class grade. 1 Video equals 1 day. This is proof that you watched the video. Even the name of the museum counts as a fact! It's that easy. ;-) 

Curator Borchert guides you personally past Van Eyck's masterpieces. (Includes an Adam & Eve Nude) In your own living room you stand eye to eye with the "Adoration of the Mystic Lamb", the "Portrait of a Man with a Blue Chaperon" and other stunning highlights in the history of painting. Want more? The "Stay At Home Museum" also brings Bruegel, Rubens and other world-class Flemish painters to your home. (Worksheet)

Museum director Michel Draguet will be your companion as you step inside Bruegel’s painting, ‘The Fall of the Rebel Angels’. Bruegel was a 16th century superstar and he still holds star status in the world of art today. Admire the masterpieces that formerly graced the walls of emperors and queens from the comfort of your own living room. (Worksheet)

Be a guest of Rubens, the emperor of Baroque painters. Ben Van Beneden, the director of the Rubens House, welcomes you to the home where the artist lived and worked. Take a stroll through the garden where Rubens found inspiration, admire his art room, and step into the master’s inner sanctum – his workshop. En route, you be able to see a cornucopia of masterpieces, including Rubens’s famous self-portrait. (Worksheet)

The channel promises new videos weekly. Their playlist is HERE.

ASSIGNMENT: Write 20 facts about any video for a 1-Day Classgrade. This is proof that you watched the video. Even the name of the museum counts as a fact.