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dicembre 12, 2018 - Museum Boijomans

‘Pure Rubens’, the largest overview of Rubens’ oil sketches in sixty-five years


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Pure Rubens

Until Januar 13

The exhibition ‘Pure Rubens’ is the largest overview of Rubens’ oil sketches in sixty-five years. Each of the oil sketches displays the brilliant touch of the master himself. #museumboijmans Van Beuningen is proud owner of an important collection of Rubens’ oil sketches. The collection is unique in The Netherlands and among the finest of the world. ‘Pure Rubens’ reveals the painter’s unmatched imaginative powers: his ability to tell stories in ways so original and exciting that you will be swept away. #museumboijmans Van Beuningen and the #museo Nacional del Prado in Madrid have collaborated to bring together the most beautiful works that show the master’s hand in all its facets and reveal his temperament: ambitious, spirited and plentiful.

Oil sketches

Rubens usually prepared his works with an oil sketch on panel – an unusual choice of material for sketching. #rubens was not the first to do this, but he was certainly a crucial innovator: no one used this preparatory method as extensively as he did. The significance these sketches had to #rubens became apparent after his death, when hundreds of them were found in his workshop. Most of them were by his own hand, but he also owned several sketches of artists he admired, like Titian and Tintoretto. It means #rubens was the first to acknowledge the art-historical value of sketches. In the centuries to follow, the interest in Rubens’ oil sketches grew and grew, as they turned into desired collector’s items. Influenced by new art movements like impressionism, the loose, spontaneous character of the sketches and the clearly visible, personal brush stroke of #rubens gained evermore admiration.

Most beautiful #rubens sketches from all over the world in Rotterdam

Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen and the #museo Nacional del Prado in Madrid both have unique collections of oil sketches from Peter Paul #rubens. For years there has been the mutual wish to combine the most beautiful pieces of their collections, and complement them with masterpieces from other museums, in order to create an unprecedented overview. The exhibition ‘Pure Rubens’ takes place in the large Bodon wing (1500 m2) of the museum, and grants the public temporary access to the room where #rubens kept his most personal works. The sketches from Rotterdam and Madrid are complemented by loans from all over the world, including works from the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, the Art Institute of Chicago, the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles, the Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza in Madrid, the National Gallery in London and Louvre in Paris. The cooperation of these museums enables us to show a selection from Rubens’ output from 1605 to 1640 in its full glory. In total, sixty-eight of the most beautiful sketches from around the world are now on display in Rotterdam. The sketches are supplemented with a number of large paintings, drawings and an enormous tapestry. 

The god of painters

Peter Paul #rubens (1577-1640) was known to his contemporaries as ‘the god of painters’. And not without reason: #rubens was one of the most influential and successful painters of his time, who produced an incredibly high and varied amount of paintings. Landscapes, portraits, religious and mythological images, hunting pieces, or designs for title pages, gates, floats and tapestries – nothing was too much for #rubens. Even so, he was not always destined to become a painter: as a young man from a good family he was taught Latin, and for a while he worked as a page boy in noble circles. For the intelligent young #rubens a scientific and political career seemed to be mapped out, in the footsteps of his older brother. Nevertheless, in 1594 he chooses the art of painting. At that moment, he has been living in Antwerp for five years. He grew up in Cologne, where his parents had moved to avoid the religious wars in The Netherlands. Presumably, father Jan was a protestant, whereas #rubens himself was a devout Catholic, like the rest of his family.

Rubens’ most important mentor in painting is Otto van Veen, from Antwerp. To him #rubens owns his great love for the Italian renaissance. In 1600, #rubens leaves for Italy, where he will stay for eight years. His painting is heavily influenced by the classical tradition he studies, as well as the contemporary Italian art he encounters.  

Enrich your visit

The exhibition is accompanied by a catalogue written by Friso Lammertse, curator of Old Master Paintings and Sculptures at Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, and Alejandro Vergara, senior curator of Flemish and Northern European Paintings at the Museo Nacional del Prado. It is available from the museum shop and online for €29.95.

The special multimedia tour places #rubens in his context and brings the stories he painted to life. The tour is available in Dutch and English, it can be reserved online for €3.00 or can be hired at the entrance to the exhibition.

You can do a sixty-minute guided tour in the exhibition with groups of up to fifteen people. The tours are available in Dutch €85 / English and French €100 (excl. entry). You have to make an reservation in advance. 

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