Dimanche 19 mai 2019
Last update on 2/11/2016
Last update on 2/11/2016
The latest news in the History of Western Art from the Middle Ages to the 1930's
Le Corpus Rubenianum Ludwig Burchard, known as the Corpus Rubenianum or even simply the Rubenianum was launched in 1963 after the acquisition of the archives and library belonging to the art historian Jacob Burchard. This monumental editorial (...)
Comparing is not enough. The Haarlem exhibition on Frans Hals, an "adoptive" native son, which attempts to associate the artist with 16th century Venetian painting and also with some of his contemporaries, is a perfect illustration of these (...)
On the 25th anniversary of Marguerite Yourcenar's death, two neigboring institutions, the Musée départemental de Flandre, in Cassel, and the Villa départemental Marguerite Yourcenar in Saint Jans Cappel, near Bailleul, are collaborating in the (...)
With over 200 works - paintings, sculptures, drawings, tapestries, art objects, furniture - the exhibition evokes in a magnificent manner the fascination and the presence of the Antique at Versailles at the time of Louis XIV. This is a (...)
Endowed, as usual, with very beautiful sheets many of which in fact have not been viewed (at least in our case) often, the Salon du Dessin 2012 for once reflects a drawback : the number of galleries and drawings from the second half of the 20th (...)
The BRAFA which opened on 20 January in Brussels continues to improve in quality every year. True, old master paintings and drawings are, regrettably, fewer in number but this is compensated by the abundance of sculptures and, of course, art (...)
21/2/11 – Acquisition – Brussels, Musées Royaux – On 26 January, the Musées Royaux in Brussels acquired a double-sided drawing by Rubens (ill. 1 and 2) with four sketches, at Christie’s New York for the expensive price of $218,500 (including charges). (...)
The exhibition at the Musée Jacquemart-André will no doubt confuse more than one art historian for its subject. In fact, it is so original that it has us quite perplexed. The exhibition’s main goal is “to provide an account of the importance of the (...)
On Wednesday, 28 April in London at Bonhams Knightsbridge, an oil on panel representing a portrait of a bearded man in armor, presented as “Style of Rubens, 19th century” and with a modest estimate of 1,000 to 2,000 pounds soared to the final (...)
The Catalogue des peintures flamandes et hollandaises du musée du Louvre is more than just a tool for accessing 1,130 paintings. This is not only a list (as is still often the case for many museum catalogues), the publication in fact provides an (...)
More and more provincial museums are focusing on their collections and publishing catalogues raisonnés often with an accompanying exhibition. The Italian paintings at the Musée des Beaux-Arts in Strasbourg had already been the subject of several (...)
Our readers may remember that the Tate Gallery had attempted to save Rubens study for Banqueting Hall from being exported after having been exhibited at the National Gallery since 1981
Ascribed to (or after) Peter Paul Rubens (1577-1640) The Allegory of Good Government Oil on panel - 26 x 21 cm Poitiers, Musée Rupert de Chièvres (work stolen late November 2007) Photo : Ch. Vignaud / Musées de la ville de Poitiers 28/11/2007 — (...)
