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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...his tenure as Surveyor of the Fabric at Westminster Abbey, for more sympathetic and historically accurate restoration; see G. Rubens, William Richard Lethaby (The Architectural Press, 1986), 233-43. 4 C....
...in which anthropological and rhetorical approaches to the attribution of life to art works were combined. Recent publications include ‘Grotesque Figuration in Rubens’s Designs for the Pompa Introïtus Ferdinandi’, in:...
...the Rubens and Baroque Room and is also perfect for larger and more complex receptions. This floor of the gallery is a decadent entertaining space that is steeped in history,...
The Courtauld is home to one of the most significant collections of works on paper in the UK, with approximately 7,000 drawings and watercolours, and 26,000 prints ranging from the...
...encourage visitors to have personal encounters with masterpieces such as Cranach’s Adam and Eve (1526), Rubens’s Landscape by Moonlight (1635-40), and Gainsborough’s Portrait of Margaret Gainsborough (c.1778). This means having...
...Jewish collections. Seilern settled in London and later bequeathed his collection of drawings, including important Rubens sketches, to the Courtauld. Throughout the term, the curators, provenance researchers, and librarians we...
...at the Old Royal Naval College in Greenwich, or in makeshift studios such as the one set up in Wren’s Orangery at Kensington Palace to work on the immense Rubens...
...project. A room dedicated to The Courtauld’s celebrated collection of works by Peter Paul Rubens will also be a significant feature of the displays. New lighting and other improvements throughout...
...Chapel Royal and Little Banqueting House at Hampton Court Palace, the Cupola Room at Kensington Palace, and Queen Charlotte’s Cottage at Kew. She was also project conservator on the Rubens...
...Rubens will be one of the highlights of these displays. The generous gift received from the Blavatnik Family Foundation enabled their complete restoration, repair and refurbishment. Masterpieces such as Manet’s...
...masters such as Canaletto, Signac, Rubens and others, attest that throughout the ages and regardless of school or nation, artists have felt compelled to write on their drawings. Such inscriptions...
