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Rubens and his age.(Peter Paul Rubens, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Ontario)(Brief Article)
The State Hermitage Museum in Saint Petersburg is one of the largest museums in the world. It houses some three million objects in an astonishing variety of mediums, collected in large part by the insatiably acquisitive Empress Catherine II (the Great; r. 1762-1796). Catherine purchased large collections en bloc, commissioned single objects, and received an enormous quantity of diplomatic and personal gifts. She formed a remarkable collection of cameos and jewelry, which she installed in the second floor of her apartments in the Winter Palace, where, as she confessed, "only the mice and I enjoy it all."
Because of the breadth of the museum's collections, it is possible to study a given subject of art in depth. In the present case, a fascinating exhibition has been assembled that is devoted to the artistic culture of seventeenth-century Flanders and its most notable artists: Peter Paul Rubens, Anthony van Dyck, and Jacob Jordaens. It also examines the considerable influence that painters in the baroque idiom had on the European decorative arts of this period. The exhibition, entitled Treasures from the Hermitage Museum, Russia: Rubens and His Age, is on view at the Art Gallery of Ontario in Toronto until August 12, and is underwritten by Goldman Sachs Canada. The 183 ...
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