A New Exhibit at the PEM Brings Flemish Masterworks and an Abundance of Wonders to the North Shore

A New Exhibit at the PEM Brings Flemish Masterworks and an Abundance of Wonders to the North Shore

Upon entering the gallery of Saints, Sinners, Lovers, Fools, 300 years of Flemish Masterworks at the Peabody Essex Museum, you are awash in color, in conflict, in love. So much was happening in this part of the world at this time: burgeoning globalism, new scientific discoveries, tremendous economic prosperity. And then there was the art… “It’s a flowering of art and culture—musically, from a literary perspective and certainly from a painting pe…