Antwerp Teacher Resources

An image of "Interior of Antwerp Cathedral", created by Peeter the Younger Neeffsz (Oil on oak, 72 x 105 cm).

This biography of van Gogh expresses his life as one who was important in the formation of Fauvism and expressionism.

As a young woman, Aphra Behn was a spy for Charles II's government in Antwerp and probably in South America. Two decades later, she used these experiences to write Oroonoko, the story of a prince kidnapped from West Africa, enslaved, and...

Brief biography with links to large, clear images of some of his works.

General information about Belgium such as its society, people, history, economics, industry, transportation, and the monarchy.

This site from the Web Gallery of Art contains a listing of paintings by Bruegel the Elder, including "The Blind Leading the Blind". Also included is a link to a detailed biography of Pieter the elder.

Although it does not provide a detailed and comprehensive geography of Belguim, this site gives you the basics. The main regions, cities and sites of attraction are profiled. The pictures are beautiful.

Depiction of the painting "Cat and Dead Game" by Carstian Luyckx. The page loads in Dutch, but there is an option to view the page in English.

A map of the northeastern frontier of France with Belgium and the Netherlands at the time of Napoleon's return to power and the War of the Seventh Coalition, subtitled "The Waterloo Campaign 1815." The map is color-coded to highlight...

A map of the Netherlands in 1713 at the time of the Treaty of Utrecht showing the battlefields of the Spanish War of Succession. The map shows Liege (1702), Antwerp, Dunkirk, and Ramillies (1706), Oudenarde and Lille (1708), Malplaquet...

The Plantin-Moretus Museum is a printing plant and publishing house dating from the Renaissance and Baroque periods. Situated in Antwerp, one of the three leading cities of early European printing along with Paris and Venice, it is...

An image of "Head of a Woman with Her Hair Loose", created by Vincent Van Gogh in December 1885, Antwerp (Oil on canvas, 35 x 24 cm).

An image of "Portrait of an Old Man with Beard", created by Vincent Van Gogh in December 1885, Antwerp (Oil on canvas, 45 x 34 cm).

An image of "Head of an Old Woman with White Cap (The Midwife)", created by Vincent Van Gogh in December 1885, Antwerp (Oil on canvas, 50 x 40 cm).

An image of "Portrait of a Woman with Red Ribbon", created by Vincent Van Gogh in December 1885, Antwerp (Oil on canvas, 60 x 50 cm).

An image of "Skull with Burning Cigarette", created by Vincent Van Gogh in Winter 1885/86, Antwerp (Oil on canvas, 32 x 25 cm).