The Courtauld Gallery is home to one of the greatest collections of art in the UK and an annual programme of focused exhibitions, displays and contemporary commissions. All housed in a beautiful human-sized gallery at Somerset House.
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...silk merchant, whom Rubens married in December 1630, when she was sixteen and Rubens, a widower, was fifty-three. Rubens shows her near life size, rendered in a delicate combination of...
In the final years of his life, Peter Paul Rubens purchased a country estate outside the Flemish city of Antwerp called Het Steen. He spent long periods there, painting landscapes...
In the final years of his life, Peter Paul Rubens purchased a country estate outside the Flemish city of Antwerp called Het Steen. He spent long periods there, painting landscapes...
The Courtauld welcomes family visitors and offers regular holiday activities, self-led trails and activity sheets to enjoy at home. Children under the age of 18 and all 18 year olds...
...2011. Since 2015, he has been employed by the Rubenshuis, Musea Antwerpen, combining research with museum work. In 2021, he was appointed director of the Rubenshuis, where with his colleagues...
...with drawing. These sessions are open and accessible to all who are interested in drawing, no previous experience is required. All materials will be provided. Looking up to Rubens: Life...
...6 on the Gallery’s second floor, for a fascinating talk about Peter Paul Rubens. Please note that due to the popularity of this event we may have to limit entry...
...arrangement and a taster for new work written on paintings in the LVMH Great Room. Spotlight: The Family of Jan Brueghel the Elder, Peter Paul Rubens Floor 2, The Blavatnik...
...NWO/VICI program ‘Art, Agency and Living Presence’, in which anthropological and rhetorical approaches to the attribution of life to art works were combined. Recent publications include ‘Grotesque Figuration in Rubens’s...
In the final years of his life, Peter Paul Rubens purchased a country estate outside the Flemish city of Antwerp called Het Steen. He spent long periods there, painting landscapes...
