Rubens, Van Dyck & Jordaens
Subtitle: Flemish painters from the Hermitage
By: [authors: Natalya Babina ... [et al.] ; text editors, Arnoud Bijl ... [et al.]]
Contributors: Gosudarstvennyĭ Ėrmitazh (Russia); Hermitage Amsterdam
Publisher: Hermitage Amsterdam
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Amsterdam
Language: eng
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9789078653271
Subjects: Art collections; Flemish Painting; Exhibitions; Gosudarstvennyĭ Ėrmitazh (Russia)
Other titles: Rubens, Van Dyck and Jordaens; Flemish painters from the Hermitage
Description: This book gives an excellent overview of Flemish art from the Hermitage in St Petersburg. A large proportion was acquired in the eighteenth century by Catherine the Great, from superb collections such as those of Crozat and Brühl, which she bought up in their entirety. Many of these paintings originally hung in churches and monasteries in Antwerp and other European cities. Most attention focuses on the 'big three': Peter Paul Rubens, Anthony van Dyck and Jacob Jordaens. Rubens was the most important, the most talented, and the most influential seventeenth-century Flemish painter. He was also a phenomenon in his day, a true homo universalis. The portraits produced by Van Dyck for the court of King Charles I of England also share the limelight, along with impressive history paintings by Jordaens, exuding the vibrant atmosphere in which he excelled. Exhibition: De Nieuwe Kerk - Hermitage, Amsterdam, 17.9.2011 to 16.3.2012.
Notes: Catalogue of the exhibition, Rubens, Van Dyck & Jordaens: Flemish painters from the Hermitage, Sept. 17, 2011 - March 16, 2012, organized by the State Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg and the Hermitage Amsterdam.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 253-255).
Table of contents: title: Foreword: grey-haired Neptune is Earth's ally / Mikhail B Piotrovsky; title: Foreword / Ernst W Veen; title: Pages from the history of the Hermitage Collection of Flemish painting / Natalya Gritsay; title: Massys, Rubens, Van Dyck and others: painting in Antwerp, 1500-1650 / Ben van Beneden; title: Rubens and his workshop / Natalya Gritsay; title: Catalogue 1-17; title: Anthony Van Dyck and the art of the portrait / Natalya Gritsky; title: Catalogue 32-47; title: Jordaens and history painting / Natalya Gritsay; title: Catalogue 48-58; title: Teniers of the Hermitage / Natalya Babina; title: Catalogue 59-75; title: Drawings by Rubens and his contemporaries / Alexey Larinov; title: Catalogue 76-115.