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Why this Rubens is now by Van Dyck
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HANDWRITING analysis has proved that drawings reputedly by the
Flemish master Rubens are really by his pupil Van Dyck, according to
new research by the British Museum.
The drawings will go on display at the museum under their new
attribution in September - three years after being shown in an
exhibition of Rubens' art at the National Gallery.
The painstaking detective work by Martin Royalton-Kisch is likely
to cause controversy when the show opens later in the year. But Mr
Royalto...
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In The Grand Manner. Van Dyck at TAMA.
Jerusalem Post
; Angela Levine Jerusalem Post 11-17-1995 "Van Dyck and his Age," one of the most magnificent shows ever mounted at the Tel Aviv Museum, has been skillfully tailored around the fact that only a limited number of museums and collections abroad could be persuaded to lend works to this exhibition. With
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A great encounter
The Spectator
; Exhibitions 1 Van Dyck (Koninklijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten, Antwerp, till 15 August; Royal Academy, London, from 11 September till 3 December) A great encounter Martin Gayford Posterity, which is always most just and accurate in its findings,' wrote the novelist and painter Eugene Fromentin in
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Unmistakable splendour
The Spectator
; Exhibitions 2 Van Dyck (Royal Academy, till 10 December) Unmistakable splendour Andrew Lambirth Van Dyck is back in London with a vengeance. On the 400th anniversary of his birth, Sir Anthony Van Dyck, ultra-sophisticate and court painter to Charles I, is being roundly feted in the city in which he
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Dynastic statements
The Spectator
; Exhibitions 2 Van Dyck in Genoa (Palazzo Ducale, Piazza Matteotti, Genoa, till 13 July) Van Dyck in Genoa celebrates the emergence of a painter, familiar to us as Charles I's court artist, by examining his formative years in Italy. Set in the opulent apartments of the Ducal Palace, the exhibition
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Van Dyck Rediscovered.
World and I
; Born four hundred years ago, Anthony Van Dyck was a child prodigy who during his lifetime and often since was overshadowed by Rubens; but now three exhibitions bring his unique genius to light. In 1990, when the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., held an exhibition devoted to the
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Van Dyck in Genoa: Making of a Master
International Herald Tribune
; Roderick Conway Morris International Herald Tribune 05-31-1997 When the 22-year-old Anton Van Dyck arrived in the birthplace of Columbus late in 1621, he was an aspiring court painter without a court to paint. When he left the Republic for the last time six years later, his mature style was formed,
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Anthony Van Dyck, meet Tracey Emin. You've got more in common than you might think
The Independent - London
; Today, as I was walking past the Royal Academy in Piccadilly thinking about Austin Powers and Tracey Emin, I remembered what John Tusa's new idea was about how critics should carry on: we must not praise something simply because it succeeds on its own terms or because we know a lot about it. Or
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Visual Arts: Death becomes Van Dyck Our images of Stuart England are overwhelmingly those of Anthony Van Dyck. But is there more to his work? By Tom Lubbock But, Tom Lubbock argues, excellence doesn't surprise us, so such artwork crucially fails - with one honourable exception...
The Independent - London
; The woman is perfected. Her dead Body wears the smile of accomplishment, The illusion of a Greek necessity Flows in the scrolls of her toga This is how Sylvia Plath put it, hard and clear, in her last poem, Edge. But corpse-portraiture goes a long way back, and Sir Anthony van Dyck put it
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Art; The Patrician Portraitist; At the National Gallery, Van Dyck's Elegant Visions of the Rich
The Washington Post
; Sir Anthony Van Dyck has been dead 350 years, but his elegance, his hauteur, has yet to be forgiven. He was a wonderful painter-his talent was prodigious, his influence enormous. Yet a certain deep-set disapproval-partially deserved-still clouds his reputation. Good plain folk distrust him
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Books: In pursuit of painted ladies Robin Blake grew up with a `Van Dyck' which led him to write the painter's Life
The Independent - London
; I first became conscious of a work by Anthony Van Dyck in my high chair. Spooning up my baby food, I had an excellent view of a grand double portrait hanging in our dining room - two court ladies, posing on the fringe of an English oak wood, one wearing white and adopting a pose of glacial
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