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...Rubens, which is today a museum. hotel-julien.com, from €190 Old-school Brussels charm Le Dixseptième is a hotel I’ve personally recommended probably a dozen times over the past 20 years....
...Rubens’ pupil Van Dyck brought the movement’s bravura dazzle, without its spiritual substance, to the court of Charles I....
...Christie’s reported substantial Asian bidding in its sale of Peter Paul Rubens’ “Lot and His Daughters”, which went for £44.8m in 2016....
...Rubens’ “Portrait of a Venetian nobleman” (c1620)....
...Based on Titian’s “Portrait of Pope Paul III” but effortlessly surpassing it, Van Dyck makes Bentivoglio seem as alive as anyone ever has been on a piece of canvas....
...The same was true of their friend, Allan Ramsay, son of a Scottish poet, then painter in ordinary to King George III and prolific portraitist....
...That reading is boosted by Titian’s portrait of Pope Paul III, 1543, which opens the second half of the show....
...THE HORSE: 30,000 Years of the Horse in Art by Tamsin Pickeral Merrell ₤29.95, 288 pages From Lascaux cave paintings to Elisabeth Frink via ancient Egypt, 13th-century China, Uccello, Velazquez, Rubens...
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