Word: rubenses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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American taste regarding the great Flemish master has favored graphic works in European museums. The Puritan strain seems to be repelled by the fleshiness of the great Baroque paintings as well as by their Counter-Reformation fervor and ostentation. Although they often lack the immediate brilliance and awesome sweep of...
The current exhibit at the Fogg Museum is the first in a series of joint exhibitions with the Morgan Library to be held here and in New York. In inaugurating the series, the local museum staff found its inspiration in the recent publication of the definitive edition of Rubens' letters...
Rubens once remarked, "My endowments are of such a nature that I have never wanted courage to undertake any design however vast in size or diversified in subject." The truth of this is evidenced in the variety of subjects even in this limited collection of his works. There are statue...
Rubens' paintings show a grandness of conception that reminds me of Michelangelo. The larger than life figures of the Renaissance master are, however, classical in their dignity and spirituality. In contrast, Rubens' figures are treated romantically. They are overly real and sensual. Passions are magnified rather than reason or the...
A weekend symposium of leading Rubens experts, a concert of Baroque music in the courtyard of Fogg, and a Houghton Library show of some of the artist's illustrations for books will augment the collection of 49 works.