Madrid Museum displays 90 paintings of the great Flemish

Peter Paul Rubens
St. George, hitting the dragon. 1607
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Peter Paul Rubens
Three Graces. Ca. 1635
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in the Prado (Madrid), the major exhibition of Peter Paul Rubens (Peter Paul Rubens). Spanish museum owns the largest collection of paintings by Flemish master, but the last time to put them all together for a long time. Typically, about two-thirds of its collection of works by Rubens in the Prado exhibits several small galleries. And now the complete collection of works by Rubens (90 pieces) in the exhibition. Except for one picture, which is temporarily located in Germany.

The exhibition works are arranged chronologically. The Museum has decided to dispense with the publication of the scholarly catalog. Instead, it was released a documentary film on DVD, in which his opinion about the work of Rubens, expressed as artists and people professionally distant from it.

Professor of the Institute of Fine Arts at New York University of Jonathan Brown (Jonathan Brown) calls Rubens' most influential painter of his era. " The artist found inspiration in the classical texts and classical sculpture. Few contemporary writers can match him in skill. Critics point out that its influence is felt in the works of Francisco Goya (Francesco Goya) and the legendary anti-war canvas "Guernica" by Pablo Picasso (Pablo Picasso). The market of art works by Rubens deservedly in demand. In 2002 the painting "Massacre of the Innocents" was sold by auction for 80 million dollars and became the most expensive work of Rubens. The second cost of painting the artist sold at auction, it's" Commander, loaded with the battle. " Its on July Christie's auction in 2010 gained over 9 million pounds (13.7 million dollars) .

The exhibition includes paintings, written in the studio of Rubens "by his students and assistants, with some help from the master, as the leadership of the Prado. These studies "are interesting from a historical perspective," says co-chair of the Painting Department at the Old Masters in London Sotheby's Alex Bell (Alex Bell). However, the art market for them is still treated as paintings of uncertain authorship.

exhibition runs until January 23, 2010.

material was prepared by Maria Onuchina, AI

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