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The exhibition features many large-scale dramatic paintings accomodated in galleries normally reserved for the museum's permanent collection. A highlight is Rubens's "Prometheus Bound" (1611-12), which shows Prometheus bound to Mount Caucasus as punishment by Zeus for stealing fire from the gods. Prometheus's pain is tangible...
Later in his life, a widowed Rubens abandoned his roles as diplomat and teacher, and settled down quietly with a second, younger wife, Helene Fourment. He said he fully intended to enjoy "the illicit pleasures of marriage." His sugary, mildly erotic Garden of Love, replete with cherubic angels and sparkling...
Though the exhibition contains mainly finished canvases, it also features an important gallery containing several of Rubens's oil sketches. These served as preparatory works for his finished products. Here, Rubens's brushwork and dynamic compositions are clearly evident in examples such as "Neptune Calming the Tempest," on loan from...
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...
These artists often combined their individual skills as landscape or figure painters to collaborate on a single canvas. The bloody and gory details of The Head of Medusa, a collaboration by Rubens and Snyders, have been considered so frightening that in the past the painting has been exhibited behind a...