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How Rubens Brought Antiquity to Life
Instead of making copies of statues, Rubens made works that imagined the statues as living models, creating works that seem to have been done from life.
Peter Paul Rubens
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Rubens Painting, Lost for Centuries, Heads to the Auction Block
The work, whose whereabouts were unknown until a French family discovered it in their collection, could sell for up to $35 million.
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Rubens’s Exciting, Upsetting, and Shockingly Current Paintings
Much of Rubens’s Baroque bravura feels timely in its grappling with violence, terror, power, sex, and coercion.
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Forgotten Old Master Painting Rediscovered in Iowa Storeroom
An unusual detail helped scholars attribute the painting to Otto van Veen: "The rosy cheeks on the model ... And not the cheeks on the face.”
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Naked in the Berkshires: 'Splendor, Myth and Vision' at the Clark
Art and power have a strong mutual attraction; in the West, their passionately shared interest is the nude body – particularly the female one.
In Brief
Old Master Paintings Snatched from Verona Turn Up in a Forest in Ukraine
After six months, 17 Old Master paintings stolen from Verona's Museo di Castelvecchio have turned up on an island in Ukraine.
In Brief
Dio Mio! Thieves Steal Artworks by Tintoretto, Rubens, Bellini and Others in Italian Museum Heist
In fair Verona, where we lay our scene, thieves have stolen 17 valuable artworks from a museum.
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The Baroque World of Rubens as a Kinetic Carousel of the Damned
In a colossal carousel of horror, Mat Collishaw and Sebastian Burdon reinterpreted the chaotic violence of Peter Paul Rubens's "Massacre of the Innocents" paintings as a 3D-printed zoetrope.
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A Rubens Exhibition That's All Fat, No Muscle
LONDON — The term “blockbuster” is defined by the equation: major name or subject + major loans = major ticket sales.
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Letter from Antwerp II: Rubens, More Diamonds, and Dogs
ANTWERP — The Jewish Diaspora and the diamond trade are not synonymous. Their stories don’t merely intertwine either. Together they have given rise to two cultural and literary archetypes, the Wandering Jew and the Court Jew.
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Letter from Antwerp I: Trains and Diamonds
ANTWERP — The Rubenshuis is not a long walk from the Station Antwerpen-Centraal (the Gare Anvers Centrale, if you like). Antwerp’s central train station rises above a wide promenade that can get you there. This marvelously sculpted stone terminal is defined by its gilded domes and clock that keeps a
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Digital Homage to the Old Masters
Davide Quagliola (aka Quayola) an Italian digital artist, loves art. He loves his Roman heritage, brimming with Renaissance and Baroque innuendos. And he loves classical images, and the beauty of the algorithm.