Rubens in Las Vegas
Rubens is in Las Vegas! The Guggenheim Hermitage Museum at the Venetian presents "Rubens and his age" until July 31st.
Two weeks ago, I took this picture at the Venetian. What you see is not the exhibition itself, but only the corridor leading to it.
A lot of paintings from the famous Flemish baroque painter Peter Paul Rubens (1577–1640) are at the State Hermitage museum in Saint Petersburg, Russia. That's because tsarina Catharina the Great (1729–1796) was an admirer of Flemish paintings. The cooperation between the New York Guggenheim and the Hermitage, resulting in the Guggenheim Hermitage Las Vegas, made it possible to put some 50 works of Rubens and his colleagues Anthony van Dyck, Jacob Jordaens, Jacob Van Oost the Elder, Adriaen van Utrecht and Frans Snyders on display.
By the way, here's the reception desk of the Venetian, with a magnificent map of Venetia on the wall.
More than 360 years after his dead, Rubens still has his followers. Contemporary Flemish painter Hans Laagland has trained himself to work with the traditional skills of painters like Rubens. He has participated in a scientific project to recreate the white paint that characterises the works of that other great painter, Rembrandt van Rijn. Laagland paints copies of existing Rubens paintings, but also formal and ceremonial portraits on demand in the style of Rubens.
And while we're at it, today's newspapers are reporting that the authenticity of up to 60 paintings attributed to Rubens have come under doubt.
Two weeks ago, I took this picture at the Venetian. What you see is not the exhibition itself, but only the corridor leading to it.
A lot of paintings from the famous Flemish baroque painter Peter Paul Rubens (1577–1640) are at the State Hermitage museum in Saint Petersburg, Russia. That's because tsarina Catharina the Great (1729–1796) was an admirer of Flemish paintings. The cooperation between the New York Guggenheim and the Hermitage, resulting in the Guggenheim Hermitage Las Vegas, made it possible to put some 50 works of Rubens and his colleagues Anthony van Dyck, Jacob Jordaens, Jacob Van Oost the Elder, Adriaen van Utrecht and Frans Snyders on display.
By the way, here's the reception desk of the Venetian, with a magnificent map of Venetia on the wall.
More than 360 years after his dead, Rubens still has his followers. Contemporary Flemish painter Hans Laagland has trained himself to work with the traditional skills of painters like Rubens. He has participated in a scientific project to recreate the white paint that characterises the works of that other great painter, Rembrandt van Rijn. Laagland paints copies of existing Rubens paintings, but also formal and ceremonial portraits on demand in the style of Rubens.
And while we're at it, today's newspapers are reporting that the authenticity of up to 60 paintings attributed to Rubens have come under doubt.
Jöe