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The Adornes Estate in Bruges, which has been owned by the same family for seventeen generations, is one of the city’s best-preserved historic sites. The Adornes family has collected artworks – primarily for the Jerusalem Chapel – since the fifteenth century, and the estate bears witness to their enormous devotion to Jerusalem. The superb collection of mainly Flemish art comprises around 50 paintings, 30 sculptures, 30 silver liturgical items, 30 liturgical vestments such as embroidered chasubles, and ten prints and drawings, including a portrait of Anselm Adornes and his wife, attributed to the Master of the Legend of Saint Barbara.
The collection’s highlights include the late fifteenth-century silver Reliquary of the Resurrection and the gilded Reliquary of the Holy Cross, masterpieces of Bruges silversmithing. The artworks in the Jerusalem Chapel also make a powerful appeal to the imagination. These include the sixteenth-century stained-glass windows – the oldest in Bruges – as well as the monumental tomb of Cornelis Tielman and the impressive Golgotha altar.
Jelle Deltombe, Operations & Marketing Manager (November 2025)