Southern neighbours at the Mauritshuis: you'll never look at portraits the same again

You know that? That sometimes you look at the caption longer than at the painting? And then especially at who the artist is, because we don't usually know the person portrayed anyway? The Flemish portraits in the exhibition Zuiderburen at the Mauritshuis intelligently turn that around. But first, more about the Mauritshuis' extensive collaboration with the Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp (KMSKA).

It is almost becoming the Empire of Flanders: the K...