Rubens Talk Series, 9 June to 21 July: To accompany our new exhibition, Rubens: Reuniting the Great Landscapes, this series of seven evening talks will explore different aspects of Rubens’s extraordinary life and achievements, the fascinating social, cultural and economic circumstances of his age, and his enduring artistic legacy.
Rubens and his Landscape Drawings: Sketching en Plein Air
Date: Wednesday 16 June 2021
Times: 19:00 to 20:00 BST, and available to view for one week thereafter
Location: Zoom Webinar (Online)
Speaker: An van Camp, Christopher Brown Curator of Northern European Art and Head of Digital Collections, Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archaeology
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Rubens: Reuniting the Great Landscapes
Date: Thursday 17 June 2021
Time: 13.00-14.00 BST
Location: Zoom (Online)
Speaker: Dr Lucy Davis (Curator of Flemish and British Paintings, Miniatures and Works on Paper, The Wallace Collection)
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The Women in Rubens’s Life
Date: Wednesday 23 June 2021
Times: 19:00 to 20:00 BST, and available to view for one week thereafter
Location: Zoom Webinar (Online)
Speakers: Prof Nils Büettner, Professor of Art History, State Academy of Arts Stuttgart and Dr Cordula van Wyhe, Senior Lecturer in Art History, University of York
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The Genoese Bankers to the Spanish King (Philip IV, 1621-1665) – “Those monied men”
Date: Wednesday 30 June 2021
Times: 19:00 to 20:00 BST, and available to view for one week thereafter
Location: Zoom Webinar (Online)
Speaker: Dr Claudio Marsilio, Researcher, University of Lisbon
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‘Equal to the Great Masters’: Landscapes by Gainsborough and Rubens
Date: Wednesday 7 July 2021
Times: 19:00 to 20:00 BST, and available to view for one week thereafter
Location: Zoom Webinar (Online)
Speaker: Dr John Chu, Senior Curator of Pictures and Sculpture, The National Trust
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Comparison, Emulation and Competition – Flemish Painting in French 18th-Century Collections
Date: Wednesday 14 July 2021
Times: 19:00 to 20:00 BST, and available to view for one week thereafter
Location: Zoom Webinar (Online)
Speaker: Dr Christoph Vogtherr, General Director, Stiftung Preußische Schlösser und Gärten, Berlin-Brandenburg
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British Painters and Rubens’s Poetic Pastorals
Date: Wednesday 21 July 2021
Times: 19:00 to 20:00 BST
Location: Zoom Webinar (Online)
Speaker: Prof Tim Barringer, Paul Mellon Professor and Chair of the Department of the History of Art, Yale University
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