Word: rubenses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Texas had never seen anything like the $1,500,000 worth of old masters that arrived in Dallas in a sealed steel freight car last week. Lent by Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum, the paintings will go on show at next week's State Fair. Among the 30 paintings...
A Little Help. His home was a palace, visited by royalty. But for his gigantic art business, which was as beautiful as it was big, Rubens needed a little help. One Manhattan art scholar currently spends most of his hours trying to prove that one of Rubens' assistants deserves...
Bordley thinks the real genius was not even Rubens' "best pupil" Anthony Van Dyck, but a fellow who was supposed to be especially adept at painting the animals in Rubens' hunting scenes. His name: Frans Snyders.
But 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...
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...