The 21st edition of The Rubenianum Quarterly recently appeared. The Rubenianum Quarterly is a digital newsletter. It publishes on the activities of the RubenianumFund, the Centre for Flemish Art of the 16th and 17th Centuries, the Rubens House (Rubenshuis) and the Rubenianum itself.
In the 21st Quarterly you will find a photo review of the Antwerp field trip by the Rubenianum Fund and you get ...
Organized in conjunction with the exhibition ‘Rubens in private' held at the Rubens House, the symposium ‘Likeness and kinship. Artistic families from the seventeenth century portrayed' aims to contextualize Rubens's family portraits.
The first two speakers will discuss and present research carried out for the exhibition. Two subsequent talks will address the differing character of family ...
Nico Van Hout gets the ball rolling this year for a series of The Rubenianum Lectures. On Sunday, 29 March, Dr. Van Hout, who is a curator at the Royal Museum of Fine Arts in Antwerp (KMSKA), is speaking about the relationship amongst 3 remarkable painters: Peter Paul Rubens, Rembrandt Harmensz. Van Rijn and Antoine Watteau.
Van Hout is the curator of the recent Rubens exhibition, Sensation and ...
The international conference Considering Women in the Early Modern Low Countries (24-25 April 2015) brings together twenty-six eminent scholars of history, art history, and literature. It will be the first conference to focus on women and gender in both the Protestant Dutch Republic and the Catholic Southern Netherlands. The venue for the conference is the Rubenianum (Kolveniersstraat 20, Antwerp) ...
The exhibition Rubens and his Legacy. Van Dyck to Cézanne looks at the impact of Rubens on the art of painting. The show is co-curated by the Rubens specialist and curator of the Royal Museum of Fine Arts in Antwerp (KMSKA) Nico Van Hout. In 2014 the show was on view at BOZAR (Centre for Fine Arts) in Brussels, it now opens at the Royal Academy of Arts in London.
Peter Paul Rubens was one of ...
The Rubenshuis devotes a unique exhibition to Peter Paul Rubens (1577-1640) and his portraits that he made of himself and his family. Although Rubens is said to have personally disliked painting portraits and though portraiture was not greatly esteemed nor highly regarded in art theory at the time, Rubens' portraits are nonetheless quality works.
His finest and most intimate portraits are ...
Hubert De Witte (*1955 in Sinaai), the former Adjunct-Director alongside Manfred Sellink, is the new Business Director of Musea Brugge. He is an archeologist by training and began his career in Bruges in 1977 with the establishment of an archaeological position. One of the highlights (in 1979) was the discovery of the tomb and skeleton of Maria van Bourgondië. Until recently he was responsible for ...
The Museo Carlos de Amberes in Madrid has been opened for the public since November 5. To be seen there are 15th and 16th Century Masters from the Northern and Southern Netherlands. The Royal Museum of Fine Arts in Antwerp (KMSKA) is loaning 21 works of art out from its collection through February 2 2015.
The 21 paintings that the KMSKA sent to Madrid offer a good showing of the artistic ...
The Rubens House in Antwerp had the monumental work Neptune and Amphitrite by Jacob Jordaens I restored. The restoration lasted for a year, whereby new bits of information came to light. The work once again hangs in the large studio of the Italian wing of the Rubens House. The Flemish wing will be closed temporarily during November for painting. After the painting is completed, the Rubens House is ...
On 16 October, Minister of Culture Sven Gatz announced that Manfred Sellink will succeed Paul Huvenne as the new General Director and Head Curator of the Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp (KMSKA). Sellink is currently General Director of Musea Brugge.
The Dutchman Manfred Sellink (born 1962) was elected after an extensive recruitment procedure. Sellink holds a PhD in Art History (Vrije ...
