Pieter Paul Rubens - Finestre sull'Arte

Genoa, restoration of Rubens' spectacular Circumcision to start soon

Significant financial resources are arriving for the restoration of the Circumcision by Pieter Paul Rubens (Siegen, 1577 - Antwerp, 1642), a 1605 masterpiece by the Flemish artist that hangs on the high altar of the Gesù church in Genoa. The n...
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Russia will return a valuable Rubens painting to Germany

An important painting by Pieter Paul Rubens (Siegen, 1577 - Antwerp, 1640), owned by the Stiftung Preussische Schlösser und Gärten (Prussian Castles and Gardens Foundation), established in 1994, will be returned from Russia to Germany follo...
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Rubens' Adoration of the Shepherds from the Great Van Schorel Collection.

Developing the indications of Frits Lugt's Repertoire des catalogues de ventes publiques (L.2299), The Getty Provenence Research conducted extensive research in 2016 on the dispersal of the important art collection that belonged to Pierre Franç...
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Rome, at the Galleria Borghese the exhibition dedicated to Rubens

From November 14, 2023 to February 18, 2024, the Galleria Borghese in Rome is dedicating an exhibition to Pieter Paul Rubens ( Siegen, 1577 - Antwerp, 1640) entitled The Touch of Pygmalion. Rubens and Sculpture in Rome, curated by Francesca Cappellet...
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Reflections on Rubens' St. Sebastian cared for by angels

The exhibition on Rubens, staged until a few days ago in the Royal Palace in Genoa, presented among some previously unpublished works a painting depicting St. Sebastian being cared for by angels, belonging to a private collection, but for some years ...
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A Rubens in Genoa not fully resolved. Lights and shadows of the Palazzo Ducale exhibition

Exactly four hundred years have passed since the publication of Pieter Paul Rubens's Palazzi di Genova, the book with which the great Flemish artist, moved by a keen interest in Genoese architecture, so much so that he gave the volume to the presses ...
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Rubens and the Palaces of Genoa: beyond the Superb Mastery of the Brush

"Color is not stone." These simple words, attributed to Pieter Paul Rubens by Jacob Burckhardt, allow us to understand the neuralgic centrality held by the "Father of the Baroque," but, at the same time, they might limit the analysis of a personality...
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The world's most beautiful carpets and works of Safavid art arrive in Genoa

From Nov. 11, 2022 to Feb. 12, 2023, the halls of Palazzo Rosso in Genoa will host "the most beautiful carpets in the world" for the exhibition The Magnificent Sanguszko Carpets. The World's Most Beautiful Carpets: masterpieces from 16th-century Pers...
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