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Oct 2, 2023 · Peter Paul Rubens, Venus, Mars and Cupid, c. 1635, Dulwich Picture Gallery, London, UK. This has always been a reductive view of an artist who could turn his hand to anything, anywhere. He started as a painter of portraits and religion and ended up a landowner happily producing idealized landscapes. He could do somber Spanish-style saints, the ...
Sep 27, 2023 · The exhibition will underline how the women in Rubens’s art were not simply passive objects to be observed, but active agents of their own destiny, and a powerful finale to the show will include large-scale paintings of heroic mythological women with highlights including The Birth of the Milky Way (1636 – 1638) from the Museo del Prado, Madrid, on display in the UK for the first time ...
Nov 27, 2023 · The thing about Rubens was, he loved women. He loved his mother, Marie, who was the rock that anchored the family, he loved his first wife, Isabella Brand, his much younger second wife, Helena ...
Sep 22, 2023 · Rubens & Women, Dulwich Picture Gallery’s delightful, modestly scaled new exhibition, achieves what decades of blockbuster shows have failed to do: it wins sympathy for Rubens the intimate ...
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Sep 19, 2023 · 1. Rubens in love. Peter Paul Rubens (1577–1640) was one of the greatest artists of all time. He worked prolifically, reputedly rising at 4am every morning. He ran a large and successful studio, with the result that around 1,500 paintings are attributed to him today. Rubens was also charming and well read.
Jan 14, 2024 · Read about my recent visit to the Dulwich Picture Gallery for the Rubens & Women exhibit and curator talk.
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Oct 2, 2023 · Rubens was 53; Helena Fourment was 16. No wonder she had to think twice, years later, about what to do about a painting of her sporting only a fur. ‘Rubens & Women’ is at the Dulwich Picture Gallery, London until 28 January 2024. From the October 2023 issue of Apollo. Preview and subscribe here.
