Artist: Peter Paul Rubens (1577 - 1640)
Nationality: Flemish
Movement: Flemish School
Media: Painting
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Biography:
Raised in Antwerp, Peter Paul Rubens was intended for a law career, until he took up painting under the instruction of the members of the Antwerp’s Painter’s Guild. Rubens was court painter to the Duke of Mantua, Vincenzo Gonzaga from 1600 to 1608 and traveled throughout Italy and Spain during that period, working in churches. He was then the court painter to Archduke Albrecht of the Netherlands in Antwerp, where he continued to work on portraits and large religious pieces. After being knighted by both Charles I and Phillip IV, Rubens retired in 1670 to work on landscapes until his death.

Artworks in Museum Collections: (100)
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Frans van den Wyngaerde Untitled (Baccanal), after Peter Paul Rubens etching circa 1650
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Giovanni Andrea Maglioli Homage to Seneca after the painting by Peter Paul Rubens Engraving 17th century
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Peter Paul Rubens Peter Paul Rubens - p.708 Harper's Weekly, 8 September 1877 wood engraving 16th - 17th century
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Peter Paul Rubens The Tribute Money, after the painting by Peter Paul Rubens now in the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco Engraving 17th century
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Korean Man
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The Assumption of the Virgin
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The Coronation of the Virgin, sketch Peter Paul Rubens (Flemish, 1577-1640)Oil on wood; 19 5/8
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Paul Pontius Portrait of Peter Paul Rubens, Peintre Engraving 17th century
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Cambyses Appointing Otanes Judge Copy after Peter Paul Rubens (probably 18th century)Oil on wood; 18
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Four Studies of a Male Head
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Diana and Her Nymphs on the Hunt
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Peter Paul Rubens ...Ne et Sulphure Pluit supra Sodomam et Gomorham... (The Angel Urges Lot to Take His Wife and Daughters Out of Sodom) , Genesis 19:15, after a composition by Peter Paul Rubens from a group of Biblical illustrations printed by C. J. Viss
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Rubens, His Wife Helena Fourment (1614-1673), and Their Son Peter Paul (born 1637), probably late
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Susanna and the Elders Workshop of Peter Paul Rubens (Flemish, 1577-1640)Oil on wood; 18 1/4
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Virgin and Child Workshop of Peter Paul Rubens (Flemish, 1577-1640)Oil on wood; 39 3/4 x
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Peter Paul Rubens - Philippe Rubens, the Artist's Brother 1610-11 oil on oak panel The Detroit Institute of Art Flemish
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Peter Paul Rubens Itaque Fuit Nocte Eadem, Angelus Iehovae...( The Angel Smiting the Camp of the Assyrians), 2nd Kings19:35, after a composition by Peter Paul Rubens from a group of Biblical illustrations printed by C.J. Visscher Engraving 17th century
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Balthazar Moncornet Portrait of Peter Paul Rubens Engraving 17th century
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Frans Francken I (1542-1616) Workshop of Peter Paul Rubens (Flemish, 1577-1640)Oil on wood; 25 1/4
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The Holy Family with Saint Elizabeth, Saint John, and a Dove Peter Paul Rubens (Flemish,
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Assumption of the Virgin
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Ladislas Sigismund IV (1595-1648), King of Poland Workshop of Peter Paul Rubens (Flemish, 1577-1640)Oil on
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Study of Two Heads Peter Paul Rubens (Flemish, 1577-1640)Oil on wood; 27 1/2 x 20
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Saint Teresa of Ávila Interceding for Souls in Purgatory Workshop of Peter Paul Rubens (Flemish,
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Atalanta and Meleager, ca. 1616 Peter Paul Rubens (Flemish, 1577-1640)Oil on wood; 52 1/2 x
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Mars and Rhea Sylvia
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Ferdinand (1609-1641), Cardinal-Infante of Spain Copy after Peter Paul Rubens (Flemish, 17th century)Oil on wood;
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The Adoration of the Shepherds
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Wolf and Fox Hunt, ca. 1615-21 Peter Paul Rubens and Workshop (Flemish, 1577-1640)Oil on canvas;
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Man Threshing Beside Wagon
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The Glorification of the Eucharist, probably ca. 1630 Peter Paul Rubens (Flemish, 1577-1640)Oil on wood;
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Rubens, His Wife Helena Fourment, and Their Son Peter Paul Bernard Lens (British, 1682-1740)Vellum; 15
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Peter Paul Rubens Helena, Second Wife of Rubens - p.709 Harper's Weekly, 8 September 1877 wood engraving 16th - 17th century
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Venus and Adonis, mid- or late 1630s Peter Paul Rubens (Flemish, 1577-1640)Oil on canvas; With
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Portrait of a Woman, Probably Susanna Lunden (née Fourment, 1599-1628) Peter Paul Rubens (Flemish, 1577-1640)Oil
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Portrait of a Man, Possibly an Architect or Geographer Peter Paul Rubens (Flemish, 1577-1640)Oil on
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The Death of Dido
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The Feast of Acheloüs, ca. 1615 Peter Paul Rubens (Flemish, 1577-1640); and Jan Brueghel the
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Bust of the Pseudo-Seneca, before 1626 Peter Paul Rubens (Flemish, 1577-1640)Pen and brown ink over
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The Virgin as the Woman of the Apocalypse
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Anatomical Studies
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The Triumph of Henry IV, sketch, 1627-31 Peter Paul Rubens (Flemish, 1577-1640)Oil on wood; 19
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Peter Paul Rubens St. Catherine Etching 16th - 17th century
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Artist: Peter Paul Rubens Title: The Union of England and Scotland (Charles I as the
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Peter Paul Rubens HÈlÈne Formann..(Rubens second wife).eleventh plate in the book...[Titles in Russian and French]... Imperatorskaya Ermitazhnaya Galereya ä GalÈrie ImpÈriale de l'Ermitage (Saint Petersburg: Gohier Desfontaines,
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Peter Paul Rubens Portrait of Rogier Clarisse oil on panel circa 1611
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A Forest at Dawn with a Deer Hunt, ca. 1635 Peter Paul Rubens (Flemish, 1577-1640)Oil
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Peter Paul Rubens The Tribute Money oil on wood panel circa 1612
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Peter Paul Rubens Head of a Boy (Angel?) red chalk 16th - 17th century
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Peter Paul Rubens St. Mary the Magdalene Etching 16th - 17th century
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Peter Paul Rubens La femme a la chandelle Etching 16th - 17th century
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Christoffel Jegher Rest on the Flight into Egypt Chiaroscuro woodcut 17th century
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Peter Paul Rubens - The Four Evangelists c. 1625-1626 oil on panel The Fitzwilliam Museum Flemish
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Peter Paul Rubens St. Francis Receiving the Stigmata Etching 16th - 17th century
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Peter Paul Rubens St. Catherine of Alexandria (reproduction ?) Etching 16th - 17th century
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Peter Paul Rubens Opticorum libri sex (Antwerp: Officina Plantiniana, 1613) book with engravings 1613
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Peter Paul Rubens Sara Breyll, wife of Rogier Clarisse oil on wood panel circa 1611
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Christoffel Jegher Silenus Accompanied by a Satyr and a Faun Woodcut 16th - 17th century
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LÈopold Flameng Ruben's wife (After Rubens) etching 19th - 20th century
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Groups of Apostles; Sketches for Medea
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Remoldus (Rombout) Eynhoudts or Eynhouedts The Virgin with the Child, St. Bonaventura and Rubens himself as St. George. Etching 17th century
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Christoffel Jegher Bust of a Bearded Man (Doge Giovanni Cornaro) Chiaroscuro woodcut 16th - 17th century
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The Return from War: Mars Disarmed by Venus
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Peter Paul Rubens - The Lamentation of Christ c. 1605 Oil on copper The Cummer Museum of Art and Gardens Flemish
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Peter Paul Rubens - The Defenders of the Eucharist c. 1625-1626 oil on panel The Fitzwilliam Museum Flemish
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Sir Peter Paul Rubens - The Fall of Phaeton c. 1604-1605 oil on canvas National Gallery of Art Flemish
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Sir Peter Paul Rubens - Daniel in the Lions' Den c. 1614-1616 oil on canvas National Gallery of Art Flemish
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Peter Paul Rubens - Study Heads of an Old Man n.d. oil on wood panel Dayton Arts Institute Flemish
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Peter Paul Rubens - Portrait of a Man with a Sword c. 1598-1599 oil on canvas Chrysler Museum of Art Flemish
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Peter Paul Rubens - The Death of Dido c. 1601-06 pen and brown ink Bowdoin College Museum of Art Flemish
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Portrait of a Young Girl, Possibly Clara Serena Rubens (1611-1623), the Artist"s Daughter Copy after
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Peter Paul Rubens - Charity with Three Children c. 1625-28 oil on panel Mead Art Museum, Amherst College Flemish
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Peter Paul Rubens - The Crowning of Roxana 17th century oil on panel Los Angeles County Museum of Art Flemish
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Peter Paul Rubens - A Roman Couple c. 1615 oil on panel Ackland Art Museum Flemish
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Sir Peter Paul Rubens - Agrippina and Germanicus c. 1614 oil on panel National Gallery of Art Flemish
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Peter Paul Rubens - Bear Hunt c. 1639 oil on wood Cleveland Museum of Art Flemish
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Peter Paul Rubens - Death of Hippolytus c. 1611 oil on copper The Fitzwilliam Museum Flemish
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Peter Paul Rubens - Isabella Brant c. 1620-25 oil on wood Cleveland Museum of Art Flemish
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Peter Paul Rubens - Head of a Negro c. 1620 oil on panel The Hyde Collection Flemish
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Peter Paul Rubens - Title Page c. 1638 oil on panel The Fitzwilliam Museum Flemish
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Peter Paul Rubens - Samson and Delilah c. 1609 oil on panel Cincinnati Art Museum Flemish
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Peter Paul Rubens - The Duke of Buckingham 1625 oil on panel Kimbell Art Museum Flemish
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Peter Paul Rubens - The Finding of Erichthonius 1632-33 oil on canvas Allen Memorial Art Museum at Oberlin College Flemish
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Peter Paul Rubens - Pallas and Arachne 1636-1637 oil on wood Virginia Museum of Fine Arts Flemish
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Peter Paul Rubens - The Road to Calvary 1632 Oil, emulsion paint University of California, Berkeley Art Museum Flemish
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Wenceslas Hollar Peter Paul Rubens 17th century
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Carlo Crivelli - Saints Peter and Paul c. 1470's egg tempera on popla The National Gallery, London Italian
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Jan H. Whitdoeck The Crucifixion Engraving 1638
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King Ferdinand and Cardinal-Infante Ferdinand
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Peter Paul Rubens - The Triumph of Divine Love c. 1625-1626 oil on panel The Fitzwilliam Museum Flemish
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Peter Paul Rubens - Saint Ignatius of Loyola c. 1620-22 Oil on Canvas Norton Simon Museum Flemish
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Peter Paul Rubens - The Victory of the Eucharist over Heresy c. 1625-1626 oil on panel The Fitzwilliam Museum Flemish
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Peter Paul Rubens - The Holy Women at the Sepulchre c. 1611-14 Oil on panel Norton Simon Museum Flemish
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Peter Paul Rubens - The meeting of Abraham and Melchizedek c. 1625-1626 oil on panel The Fitzwilliam Museum Flemish
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Peter Paul Rubens - David Slaying Goliath c. 1616 Oil on Canvas Norton Simon Museum Flemish
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Peter Paul Rubens - The Holy Family with St.Anne c. 1635 oil on canvas North Carolina Museum of Art Flemish
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Peter Paul Rubens - The Union of Earth and Water c. 1615-1620 oil on panel The Fitzwilliam Museum Flemish
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Sir Peter Paul Rubens - Decius Mus Addressing the Legions c. 1616 oil on hardboard National Gallery of Art Flemish
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Peter Paul Rubens - Briseis Given Back to Achilles 1630-31 oil on oak panel The Detroit Institute of Art Flemish
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Sir Peter Paul Rubens - The Meeting of Abraham and Melchizedek c. 1626 oil on panel National Gallery of Art Flemish

Artnews Articles and Exhibition Information: (30)
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Fogg Art Museum, Harvard: Calming the Tempest with Peter Paul Rubens
The other offers material that illuminates the cultural tradition and social circumstances within which Rubens was working to produce this painting in Antwerp in the 1630s. The exhibition seeks to provoke viewers to consider what it might mean to ...
Rembrandt House: Rembrandt’s Treasures

Rubens will be represented by a major work, on loan from Dresden, illustrating the story of Hero and Leander. It hung in Rembrandt’s house for many years before he sold it on in 1644. Another masterpiece is a painting by ...
Michael C. Carlos Museum: So Many Brilliant Talents: Art and Craft in the Age of Rubens
The period was one of extraordinary artistic achievement, with artists of the highest caliber working for the court, the Church and the upper middle class, says the exhibition curator, Dr. Ronni Baer, curator of European art at the Carlos Museum and...
Frick Art and Historical Center: Masterworks from the Albertina: Renaissance to Rococo
In all, some eighty drawings and twenty-two prints by masters of the German, Dutch, Flemish, Italian, and French schools will be on view. This traveling exhibition will remain at The Frick Art Museum through March 3, 2002. Among the many oth...
J. Paul Getty Center: THE BODY BEAUTIFUL: Artists Draw The Nude (1440-1850)
Mastering the depiction of the nude figure has long been a cornerstone of an artist’s training. Classical form prevailed through the Renaissance. Male nudes were drawn with finely detailed, strongly define...
Appleton Museum of Art: Rubens, Jordaens, Van Dyck, and their Circle: Flemish Master Drawings from the Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen
Twenty-nine remarkable drawings by Rubens will make up the opening section of the exhibition. These sheets range over the full course of the artist’s long and distinguished career and include, most, if not all, of the many aspects of Ruben’s draft...
British Museum: THE LIGHT OF NATURE: Landscape drawings and watercolours by Van Dyck and his contemporaries
The exhibition brings together 25 of the 29 known landscape drawings by Van Dyck. Now widely dispersed, they are b...
Indianapolis Museum of Art: Museum Receives Major Old Master Collection
The Clowes Collection, assembled in the 1930s, 40s and 50s by George H. A. Clowes, is one of the finest private collections of Old Master art ever formed in the Midwest, said IMA director Bret Waller. The Clowes Collection includes paintings ...
Antwerpen: Van Dyck 1999 is More than a Huge Retrospective at the Museum of Fine Arts
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Museo del Prado: Titian: The Museum's First Exhibition of His Works
The exhibition Titian aims to rectify this situation. With the collaboration of the national Gallery, an ambitious project has been devised which brings together the largest group of works by the artist assembled since 1935: 65 paintings from vari...
Art Gallery of New South Wales: Old Master Drawings from the Albertina, Vienna
While extensive restoration at the Albertina is undertaken, the Art Gallery of New South Wales is delighted to have the opportunity to exhibit a glorious pageant of 100 works that reflect the breadth and quality of Duke Albert’s original collectio...
The British Museum: The Light of Nature: Van Dyck
The exhibition brings together 25 of the 29 known landscape drawings by Van Dyck. Now widely dispersed, they are borrowed from ...
Bartley Nees Gallery: Veils, Trails and Horses Tails: New Paintings by judy Millar
Be sure not to miss this exhibition of Judy's exuberant new paintings, which despite their abstraction perversely seduce the viewer into their seemingly three-dimensional depths. This is an artist on a roll - in her first year working full-time as...
Muse 269 Gallery: Charlie Warde: A Solo Show of Paintings and Drawings
The paintings exhibited are worked in traditional medium of oil on canvas and his subject matter is of recent landscapes painted in North England at his fathers farm in Kent. Concerned with all aspects of colour and design, he attempts to ‘bend th...
Art Gallery of Ontario: From Michelangelo to Picasso: Great Master Drawings from the Collection of the Albertina, Vienna
The selection of drawings in this exhibition demonstrates the breadth and strength of the Albertina’s holdings. The exhibition will provide a comprehensive ove...
Brooklyn Museum of Art: SENSATION: Young British Artists From the Saatchi Collection
Among the forty two artists represented is Damien Hirst, perhaps Britains best-known artist of this generation, who is now recognized throughout the world for his work comprising sections of animals, such as sharks, lambs, and cows, preserved and ...
National Gallery of Art: FROM REMBRANDT TO RUBENS AND MONET TO MATISSE, EXHIBITION PRESENTS ACQUISITIONS OF THE LAST DECADE AT THE NATIONAL GALLERY
The exhibition is made possible by Verizon Foundation, the philanthropic arm of Verizon Communications. The Foundation is also funding the development of a ...
Mississippi Art Pavilion: The Glory of Baroque Dresden
Among the highlights of the exhibition are Johann Vermeer’s “The Procuress” and the 41-carat “Dresden Green Diamond.”  Other artworks include twenty-seven Old Masters paintings by Rembrandt, Rubens, Titian, van Dyck, Veronese, Tintoretto, and Mant...
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston: The Draftsman's Art: Master Drawings from the National Gallery of Scotland
The Draftsman's Art spans the 15th to the 19th centuries with drawings by Leonardo da Vinci, Raphael, Peter Paul Rubens, François Boucher, William ...
Art Instutite ofChicago: Raphael and Titian: The Renaissance Portrait
The Raphael and Titian portraits will be on loan to the Art Institute from the Pitti Gallery in Florence, where they are considered to be two of the greatest masterpieces in the collection. This exhibition offers a rar...
Art Gallery of Ontario: Treasures from the Hermitage Museum, Russia: Rubens and His Age
Director Iosif Orbeli ordered the great museum emptied on June 23, 1941, the day after the first invasion by Hitler, starting the Siege of Leningrad. More than 1.5 million works were packed during a six-day marathon...
National Gallery: Baroque Painting in Genoa: The First Exhibition to Be Held in Britain of Genoese Painting
This is the first exhibition to be held in Britain of Genoese painting. Highlights include Rubens Equestrian Portrait of Giovan Carlo Doria, an impressive image of one of Genoa's most significant artistic patrons; Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione's ...
Frick Collection: The Draftsman’s Art: Master Drawings from the National Gallery of Scotland
The exhibition is accompanied by a presentation organized by The Frick Collection and offered at this venue only. Generously on loan from the National Gallery of Scotland from December 5, 2000 through January 21, 2001, is one of its most popul...
Appleton Museum of Art: Splendors of 16th and 17th Century: Dutch, Spanish, Flemish, French, British Painting From the Collections of the Ringling Museum of Art
Splendors samples the Ringling's extensive Baroque collection, considered among the largest and finest in North America. Baroque art emerged as a product of the Catholic Counter Reformation in the 17th century. It is characterized, in part, b...
Cafe Gallery Project: Johannes Phokela Re-Working Iconic Images
Phokela links these re-interpretations of Dutch Golden Age painting with the development of the Enlightenment movement, and with the colonisation of the African continent. Whilst Phokela's work weaves a personal history into the canon of Dutch ...
The Art Gallery of Ontario: Riches from Rome
Caravaggio
is considered one of the most important figures of the Baroque period - his dramatic realism and magic use of light influenced artists throughout Europe...
Showroom: Diann Bauer: bludgeonerator
Diann Bauer is a London based artist. Her paintings and drawings are an implosion of violent imagery from different times and cultures, such as the Japanese Edo period woodcuts of Utagawa Kuniyoshi, and for her new work at The Showroom, the painti...
Musee du Quebec: The Return of The Polish Treasures
The selection shown includes sumptuous Flemish tapestries from the collection of King Sigismund Augustus, rare portraits of royal families and members of the nobilit...
Thomas Dane: Translations - Creative Copying and Originality
The idea that artists create autonomously is a great myth. The exhibition shows how artists have always been attracted by the works of their predecessors and contemporaries and how they have explored the creative potential of copying for their own...
Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst: Jacques Charlier: Belgian Aspects of Flanders
Charlier is a Belgian artist who is internationally appreciated. Until now the main impulses behind this have come from Flanders. In fact few curators in Wallonia support him. This fact provides the theme for the S.M.A.K. exhibition. Charlier wan...

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