D’Émile Wauters à Jean-Claude Idée. Postérité d’un thème romantique : La Folie d’Hugo van der Goes

Abstract

By studying three works which illustrate the posterity of the Flemish primitive painter, Hugo van der Goes : “The madness of Hugo van der Goes” (Emile Wauters-1872), the radio play of the same name (Michel de Ghelderode-1935) and the one-act play : “The madness of van der Goes” (Jean-Claude Idée), we endeavour to show here that the interest in van der Goes is prompted mainly by the renewal of aesthetic standards and the development of the status of the artist which occurred specifically in the 19th Century and whose heirs we still are today.