Mon, Jan 31
|Flanders via Zoom
Rubens @ Antwerp
Art with Friends Around the World via Zoom


Time & Location
Jan 31, 2022, 10:00 AM – 11:30 AM PST
Flanders via Zoom
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About the event
Zoom Tour
Art Around the World - Rubens @ Antwerp
Expert: Luca Pietrosanti, Art Historian and Expert Guide
CLASS IS FULL
Doing Good: 10% of net proceeds benefit Book-Cycle Rome
Itinerary
Art Around the World - Flemish Masters
“Art evokes the mystery without which the world would not exist.” ― René Magritte
In this +With Friends series we travel virtually to Flanders, in modern day Belgium, to learn about the birth and evolution of the Northern Renaissance.
In Week 2, we Zoomed to Brussels on the footsteps of Pieter Bruegel, the enigmatic master who is largely responsible for the creation of Flanders’ national psyche and collective consciousness as “hard working yet bon vivant.” In his paintings of landscapes and picturesque villages bustling with life the boundary between real and fantastic is blurred in his apocalyptic religious and mythical visions.
Art Works:
Pieter Bruegel the Elder, Landscape with the Fall of Icarus, 1560
Pieter Bruegel the Elder, The Census of Bethlehem, 1566
In Week 3, we are off to Antwerp, on the River Scheldt, which became the heart of Catholic Flanders after the separation from the seven reformed Northern Provinces, where we meet Pieter Paul Rubens, the greatest Flemish Master of the 17th century. As a court painter and diplomat, he traveled extensively throughout a Europe shaken by the Thirty Years’ War and religious turmoil, expressing the contrasts of the age in his intense religiously charged yet sensual baroque masterpieces.
Let’s explore!
WEEK 3: The Flemish Masters — Renaissance to Modernity Pieter Paul Rubens @ Antwerp
- Iconic Art Work: Descent from the Cross, 1612-1614
- Check out Antwerp: 23 Best Things to Do in Antwerp Blog
- List of Works
Resources
- Travel - Flanders State of the Art - Flemish Masters
- Museums - Royal Museum of Fine Arts of Belgium
Images by wikimedia.org
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