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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...
A million dollar exhibition of Peter Paul Rubens' drawings and oil sketches will open Saturday at the Fogg Art Museum.
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.
London's famed National Gallery calls its collection of paintings "perhaps the best balanced and most representative, if not the most extensive . . . in the world." To that proud boast it now adds a mournful confession: the gallery is so poor that it cannot even care properly for the treasures it...
Paradoxically, while he sketched rapidly, Delacroix spent eight months in preliminary studies for a single painting, The Massacre at Scio. In many ways, he approached painting itself as a great performer approaches music; he believed that only endless practice prepares the artist for the grand performance when he must soar...