Word: dyck
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...walls of the Flemish section are a gray-mauve that curators describe as plum but less charitable observers call degueulis d'ivrogne (loosely translated as regurgitated wine). Here the magnificent Flemish collection, featuring works of Van Eyck, Van Dyck and Bruegel, ultimately prevails. And so does the ingenuity of Pei's layouts, which is evident throughout the painting galleries. For Poussin, Pei designed a special octagonal room to show off the famous Seasons series. And for the 24 oversize Rubenses commissioned by Marie de Medicis in the 1620s, Pei designed what is the stunning centerpiece of the Flemish section...
Besides Rubens's own masterpieces, the exhibition dazzles with impressive works by Rubens' colleagues and students, among them Anthony Van Dyck, Jacob Jordaens, Jan Brueghel, David Teniers, and Frans Snyders. Not to be missed is Jacob Jordaens's amusing genre scene of a corpulent "Married With Children" type family entitled As the Old Ones Sing, So the Young Ones Pipe (1640-45). Also impressive are Van Dyck's stately, sweeping Portrait of the Marchesa Elena Grimaldi, and the massive, sixteen-foot Boar Hunt by Frans Snyders...
...that are always open to the public and have no queues. Buckingham Palace does contain some great pictures though. Most are from the Netherlands: Rembrandt's ship $ builder, with his sketches of hull sections before him, being handed a note by his stout wife; top-flight Rubenses; and Van Dyck's two portraits of Charles I, especially the "greate peece," which depicts him with his consort and children -- the mobile thin face, shadowed with melancholy, amid the grand, vaporous profusion of light on silk and marble. No later court painter -- at least not in England -- would rival Van Dyck...
...DRAWINGS OF ANTHONY VAN DYCK, Pierpont Morgan Library, New York City. For the 350th anniversary of the death of this Baroque master, the museum has amassed 90 drawings, ranging from Van Dyck's earliest sketches to studies for his glowing royal portraits. Through April...
...show in Washington gives many Americans their first proper look at Anthony van Dyck, who set the tropes on which Gainsborough, Reynolds and even Sargent would continually draw...