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Apr 5, 2019 · A newly-opened survey of Rubens’ early works at the Legion of Honor Museum in San Francisco sheds light on how Rubens’ social connections, diplomacy, and will to shock his audience allowed him global fame in his day and an enduring legacy.
Apr 8, 2019 · Early Rubens is anchored in The Tribute Money (ca. 1610 –1615), a treasured Flemish Baroque masterpiece from the collection of the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, and the recently rediscovered The Massacre of the Innocents (ca. 1611–1612), a centerpiece of the Art Gallery of Ontario’s collection.
Jun 14, 2019 · ‘These three pictures convey what makes Rubens special – the array of subjects, his quotes from the classics, his workshop, his painting,’ says Kirk Nickel, who co-curated the show and is assistant curator of European paintings at the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, of which the Legion of Honor is one part.
Apr 8, 2019 · Early Rubens is anchored in The Tribute Money (ca. 1610 –1615), a treasured Flemish Baroque masterpiece from the collection of the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, and the recently rediscovered The Massacre of the Innocents (ca. 1611–1612), a centerpiece of the Art Gallery of Ontario’s collection.
SAN FRANCISCO — Almost every popular cliche about art and artists that has emerged in the past two centuries is spectacularly nonapplicable to Peter Paul Rubens. The great Flemish painter who...
Renowned for his virtuosic handling of oil paint, his taut depiction of dramatic action, and his sensuous coloring, Rubens was also an international diplomat, a shrewd businessman, a widely-read intellectual, a friend to scholars and monarchs, and the master of a prolific workshop.
The Legion of Honor in San Francisco will host an amazing exhibition featuring early works made by the iconic Baroque master Peter Paul Rubens.
