Rubens' Europe
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Part of room n° 5, called “Rubens, emulation and competition”. | |
Date | May 22 – September 23, 2013 |
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Venue | Louvre-Lens |
Location | Lens, France |
Type | Exhibition of works of art |
Organised by | Blaise Ducos |
Participants | 127956 |
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Rubin's Europe was a temporary exhibition at the Louvre-Lens which took place in the temporary exhibitions gallery from May 22 to the September 23, 2013, following the inaugural Renaissance exhibition. The exhibition brought together 170 works by Peter Paul Rubens and his contemporaries, the majority of which were on loan from other museums.
Preparing the exhibition took just under two years of work. Many of the works involved come from major international museums. It was open to the public for four months, with 127,956 visitors attended, a little over 20,000 less than the inaugural exhibition, which was open for three weeks less. The statistics in terms of visitors were described as a "success" and "a satisfactory result", although the word of journalists and specialists were mixed, even sometimes negative, though often celebrating the quality of the works. The entrance fee was nine euros, the reduced price was eight. Rubens' Europe was replaced by The Etruscans and the Mediterranean from December 5, 2013.
Sponsorship[]
The Caisse d'Épargne Nord France Europe was a “major sponsor” of the exhibition, and is, moreover, “a great sponsor” of the Louvre-Lens.
Curator[]
The Exhibition was curated by Blaise Ducos.[1]
Opening[]
The opening took place on Tuesday, May 21, 2013 in the afternoon, three hundred guests attending, including Daniel Percheron and Jean-Pierre Kucheida. As well as politicians, patrons or representatives of partner museums and lenders were present.[2]
Unlike the Renaissance exhibition, whose vast majority of works came from the Louvre, most of the works for Rubens' Europe came from other museums, including those of eight countries:
- National Library of France, Paris, France [LLC 1]
- Fondation Custodia, Paris, France [LLC 2]
- , Paris, France [LLC 3]
- , Paris, France [LLC 4]
- , Bayonne, France[LLC 5]
- Palais des beaux-arts, Lille, France [LLC 6]
- , Douai, France [LLC 4]
- , Versailles, France [LLC 7]
- , Marseille, France [LLC 8]
- Wallraf-Richartz Museum, Cologne, Germany[LLC 9]
- Maximilianmuseum, Augsburg, Germany [LLC 10]
- Bayerisches Nationalmuseum, Munich, Germany [LLC 10]
- Alte Pinakothek, Munich, Germany [LLC 11]
- Skulpturensammlung und Museum für Byzantinische Kunst, State Museums, Berlin, Germany [LLC 3]
- Gemäldegalerie, Berlin, Germany [LLC 11]
- Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna, Austria[LLC 9]
- , Brussels, Belgium[LLC 3]
- Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium, Bruxelles, Belgium [LLC 12]
- Rubenshuis, Antwerp, Belgium [LLC 13]
- Royal Museum of Fine Arts, Antwerp, Belgium [LLC 14]
- Plantin-Moretus Museum, Antwerp, Belgium [LLC 15]
- , Ghent, Belgium [LLC 4]
- , Madrid, Spain[3]
- , Madrid, Spain[LLC 7]
- Palacio de Liria, Madrid, Spain[LLC 16]
- Patrimonio Nacional, Madrid, Spain[LLC 17]
- es:Museo Nacional de Artes Decorativas, Madrid, Spain[LLC 18]
- Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, America[3]
- Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, America[LLC 5]
- National Gallery of Art, , America[LLC 2]
- , Houston, America[LLC 19]
- , Boston, America[LLC 3]
- J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, America[LLC 14]
- , New Haven, America[LLC 20]
- , Florence, Italy[LLC 10]
- , Florence, Italy[LLC 21]
- , Rome, Italy[LLC 8]
- , Rome, Italy[LLC 8]
- , Haarlem, the Netherlands[LLC 22]
- , Rotterdam, the Netherlands[LLC 12]
- Victoria and Albert Museum, London, [LLC 23]
- British Museum, London, The UK-Uni[LLC 5]
- National Gallery, London, The UK-Uni[LLC 7]
- Royal Collection, London, The UK-Uni[LLC 11]
- Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, The UK-Uni[LLC 15]
In total, there are fifty-three lenders, mostly museums, and some collectors. The works were in seven rooms: L'Europe des cours (rooms 1 and 2), Religious emotion and baroque faith (room No.3), Ephemeral monumentality (room No.4), Rubens, emulation and competition (room No .5), Rubens and the Republic of Letters (room No.6), and The Ways of Genius (room No.7).
- L'organisation de l'espace
1re salle : L'Europe des cours.
2e salle : L'Europe des cours.
3e salle : Émotion religieuse et foi baroque.
4e salle : Monumentalité éphémère.
5e salle : Rubens, émulation et concurrence.
6e salle : Rubens et la république des lettres.
7e salle : Les voies du génie.
The exhibition catalog cost €39. Its cover depicts Tortured Prometheus, an oil painting begun in 1611-1612 by Peter Paul Rubens and Frans Snyders, completed in 1618. Lucie Streiff-Rivail, responsible for books at the Louvre-Lens, says that this 362-page book took about a year and a half of work, its proof was given on April 22, with a slight delay. The catalogs were delivered on May 13, just over a week before the exhibition opened to the public. Lucie Streiff-Rivail described the catalog as "a very high-quality document", it is around 700,000 characters.
Bibliography[]
- Arnout Balis, Blaise Ducos, Jeroen Duindam, Marc Fumaroli, Paul Huvenne, David Jaffé, Corinne Thépaut-Cabasset (2013). L'Europe de Rubens (in French). Lens & Paris: Musée du Louvre-Lens & Éditions Hazan. ISBN 978-2-36838-012-3.CS1 maint: uses authors parameter (link)
Footnotes[]
References[]
- ^ Yves Portelli (21 May 2013). "Louvre-Lens : derrière chaque publication consacrée aux expositions on trouve forcément Lucie !". lavoixdunord.fr. La Voix du Nord.
- ^ Pauline Drouet (21 May 2013). "Louvre-Lens : Rubens et l'Europe ouvrent leurs portes au musée". lavoixdunord.fr. La Voix du Nord.
- ^ Jump up to: a b Pauline Drouet (22 May 2013). "Coup d'envoi de l'exposition "L'Europe de Rubens" qui place le Louvre-Lens sur la carte du monde des musées". lavoixdunord.fr. La Voix du Nord.
- References to L'Europe de Rubens. Musée du Louvre-Lens & Éditions Hazan. 2013.
- ^ L'Europe de Rubens, p. 324
- ^ Jump up to: a b L'Europe de Rubens, p. 318
- ^ Jump up to: a b c d L'Europe de Rubens, p. 312
- ^ Jump up to: a b c L'Europe de Rubens, p. 326
- ^ Jump up to: a b c L'Europe de Rubens, p. 320
- ^ L'Europe de Rubens, p. 306
- ^ Jump up to: a b c L'Europe de Rubens, p. 329
- ^ Jump up to: a b c L'Europe de Rubens, p. 330
- ^ Jump up to: a b L'Europe de Rubens, p. 321
- ^ Jump up to: a b c L'Europe de Rubens, p. 314
- ^ Jump up to: a b c L'Europe de Rubens, p. 331
- ^ Jump up to: a b L'Europe de Rubens, p. 304
- ^ L'Europe de Rubens, p. 311
- ^ Jump up to: a b L'Europe de Rubens, p. 307
- ^ Jump up to: a b L'Europe de Rubens, p. 328
- ^ L'Europe de Rubens, p. 295
- ^ L'Europe de Rubens, p. 296
- ^ L'Europe de Rubens, p. 297
- ^ L'Europe de Rubens, p. 317
- ^ L'Europe de Rubens, p. 303
- ^ L'Europe de Rubens, p. 298
- ^ L'Europe de Rubens, p. 316
- ^ L'Europe de Rubens, p. 325
See also[]
Connected articles[]
External links[]
- Peter Paul Rubens
- 2013 in France
- Art exhibitions in France
- Visual arts exhibitions