Karel van de Woestijne and August Vermeylen. Emulation around the Flemish masters: Émulation autour des maîtres flamands

This article demonstrates the importance of the exposition of the Flemish Primitives in Bruges in 1902 and the development of art history as an academic discipline. The Flemish painters drove writer and art historian August Vermeylen to plunge into the study of art, and inspired his lyrical prose. Vermeylen's work is compared with that of the symbolist poet Karel van de Woestijne who made his debut as an art critic with an essay about the Bruges exposition. In his emulation with Vermeylen, he wrote literary equivalents of the Flemish paintings in Christophorus and Goddelijke verbeeldingen.