Once he got there, he traveled to Belgium by train to see the painting that inspired this, Auden’s masterpiece. Wild — Nicky says he sat before that piece with wrinkled pages that he’d ...

When Vincent van Gogh moved in 1878 to the coal mining district of the Borinage, centred on Mons in southern Belgium ... Birth of an Artist’, Musée des Beaux-Arts de Mons, to May 17 ...

Inside the Royal Museums of Fine Arts' Musee des Beaux-Arts building. 2 ... this is a must see. René Magritte is Belgium's most celebrated Surrealist, and this award-winning museum is entirely ...

W.H. Auden went to the Musées Royaux des Beaux-Arts de Belgique, which furnished the inspiration for this poem, published in 1940. It was a tense time in Belgium and the world. Madness was afoot in ...

Musée des Beaux Arts by W.H. Auden About suffering they were never wrong, The Old Masters: how well they understood Its human position; how it takes place While someone else is eating or opening ...

While brick as a building material is an indirect memento of the district’s industrial history, the arched window perpendicular to the tracks of the old railway-station hall acts as an integral ...