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Wednesday, October 26, 2005
Rubens: A Master In The Making
The National Gallery: 26 October 2005 - 15 January 2006
Detail from Rubens, 'Saint George', 1605-7. © Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid.
The exhibition tells the remarkable story of Rubens's dramatic ascension from working as a pupil of a minor Antwerp artist, to become the dominant international painter of his time. It is the most thorough explanation of the flowering of his genius ever attempted. The story traces his hesitant beginnings in Antwerp (1598-1600) to his eight-year study trip to Italy (1600-1608), where he embraced the Renaissance greats of Michelangelo and Raphael and the revolutionary style of Caravaggio.(...)