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Britten's Peter Grimes, first produced in London in June 1945, had already been sung in Swedish in Stockholm, in Flemish in Antwerp, in German in Basel and Zurich. Last week at Serge Koussevitzky's summer music colony at Tanglewood in the Berkshires, U.S. audiences heard three performances in English...
After three centuries, the doors of Peter Paul Rubens' plush art factory reopened in Antwerp last week. It had been completely restored and made into a museum. Reopened too was the question of who painted Rubens' pictures...
...Rubens' assistants deserves most of the credit for Rubens' best stuff. The scholar, Rogers Bordley (Foreign Editor of Art Digest), contends that Rubens was more a fast-talking agent than he was a fast-working artist. He kept a crackerjack stable of less renowned painters in his Antwerp mansion, "finished" and signed their efforts as well...
...when Rubens died in 1640, the business died with him. Nine years later his house was leased to an Englishman in exile who turned it into a riding stable. In 1672 Antwerp's Burgomaster tried to buy it for the town, but the price was too high and the palace remained private property until 1931, when Antwerp got royal permission to expropriate it. Since then, Antwerp's crack architects had thumbed 17th Century documents to rediscover the original plans, masons cut through walls in search of the original foundations, and 23 stonecarvers-using Renaissance techniques-worked seven years...
Peacocks & Collectors. Last week the citizens of Antwerp gossiped in Rubens' private apartments, gawked at a gold necklace which Rubens' sexy-looking second wife, Helena Fourment, once wore, mused on some of the Master's slickest portraits and best and butteriest painted goddesses, scanned the formal gardens where ruffed collectors and peacocks once displayed their slow, glistening struts, and dawdled in the 35 ft. by 46 ft. studio where Rubens' assistants had labored to produce some 3,000 paintings signed by Peter Paul Rubens...