Dirk de Vos is a Belgian art historian specialising in

medieval art The medieval art of the Western world covers a vast scope of time and place, over 1000 years of art in Europe, and at certain periods in Western Asia and Northern Africa. It includes major art movements and periods, national and regional art, ge ...

. He was the

curator A curator (from la, cura, meaning "to take care") is a manager or overseer. When working with cultural organizations, a curator is typically a "collections curator" or an "exhibitions curator", and has multifaceted tasks dependent on the parti ...

of the

Groeningemuseum The Groeningemuseum is a municipal museum in Bruges, Belgium, built on the site of the medieval Eekhout Abbey. It houses a collection of Flemish and Belgian painting covering six centuries, from Jan van Eyck to Marcel Broodthaers. The muse ...

Bruges Bruges ( , nl, Brugge ) is the capital and largest city A city is a human settlement of notable size.Goodall, B. (1987) ''The Penguin Dictionary of Human Geography''. London: Penguin.Kuper, A. and Kuper, J., eds (1996) ''The Social Scienc ...

Education

De Vos attended secondary school in Bruges, graduating in 1961.

Work

De Vos's magnum opus is a catalogue of the complete works of

Hans Memling Hans Memling (also spelled Memlinc; c. 1430 – 11 August 1494) was a painter active in Flanders, who worked in the tradition of Early Netherlandish painting. He was born in the Middle Rhine region and probably spent his childhood in Mainz. H ...

, on whom he curated a major exhibition in 1994. He followed this in 1999 with a catalogue of the complete works of

Rogier van der Weyden Rogier van der Weyden () or Roger de la Pasture (1399 or 140018 June 1464) was an Early Netherlandish painting, early Netherlandish painter whose surviving works consist mainly of religious triptychs, altarpieces, and commissioned single and dip ...

Publications

*''Stedelijke musea Brugge: catalogus schilderijen 15de en 16de eeuw''. Stad Brugge, 1979. *''Groeningemuseum Brugge: de volledige verzameling''. Die Keure, 1984. *''Catalogue: Hans Memling''. Fonds Mercator Paribas, 1994 *(editor), ''Essays: Hans Memling''. Stedelijke Musea, Bruges, 1994 *''Hans Memling: The Complete Works''. Thames & Hudson, 1994. *''Rogier van der Weyden: The Complete Works'', translated by Ted Alkins. Harry N. Abrams, 1999. *''The Flemish Primitives: The Masterpieces ''. Mercatorfonds and Princeton University Press, 2003.

References

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