Venice: Palazzo Ducale – From Titian to Rubens - Masterpieces from Antwerp and other Flemish Collections

Palazzo Ducale

From Titian to Rubens

Masterpieces from Antwerp and other Flemish Collections

At Palazzo Ducale, until March 1, the Fondazione Musei Civici di Venezia, in conjunction with the City of Antwerp, VisitFlanders and the Flemish Community, presents From Titian to Rubens - Masterpieces from Antwerp and other Flemish Collections, the exhibition is curated by Ben Van Beneden, director of Rubenshuis in Antwerp with the Scientific direction of Gabriella Belli. The magnificent Doge’s apartments have been transformed into veritable constkamers, rooms filled with exquisite art demonstrating the riches of Flemish collections. Featuring masterpieces by artists including Titian, Peter Paul Rubens, Anthony van Dyck and Michiel Sweerts, the exhibition offers a dazzling array of works, and the finest group of Italian and Flemish art to come to Italy.

Maerten de Vos - 1532–1603
The Calumny of Apelles - 1594–1603c. - Oil on panel

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“From Titian to Rubens. Masterpieces from Antwerp and other Flemish Collections provides a rich overview of the best that Flemish art has to offer. The exhibition contains important loans from the leading Flemish museums with significant collections of seventeenth-century art. It also features a selection of the best works from private collections in Flanders. These masterpieces from Flemish collections, both public and private, hardly ever leave their homes, and some are being shown in public for the first time at this exhibition.”

 Ben Van Beneden

Curator

 

  Palazzo Ducale

From Titian to Rubens

Masterpieces from Antwerp and other Flemish Collections

Three icons of Venetian painting return to their hometown of Venice: Titian’s Jacopo Pesaro presenting Saint Peter to Pope Alexander VI, the altarpiece of the former San Geminiano church, covered by the press worldwide as David Bowie’s Tintoretto’, and Titian’s Portrait of a Lady and her Daughter, above (thought to be a depiction of Titian’s mistress Milia and their daughter Emilia). These masterpieces from Flemish collections, both public and private, are rarely lent and some have never, until now, been shown in public.

Tiziano Vecellio - 1488–1576

Portrait of a Lady and her Daughter - oil on canvas 1550c.

  Photo - Bart Huysmans - Michel Wuyts – copyright - Collectie Stad Antwerpen - Private collection, on loan to the Rubenshuis, Antwerp -courtesy MuVe

Jacopo Tintoretto - 1519–1594
Angel foretelling the Martyrdom of Saint Catherine of Alexandria
1560–1570 – oil on canvas - cm 177,10 x 99,30

Peter Paul Rubens – 1577-1640
Portrait of a young woman holding a chain
1605-1606 – oil on canvas

Twelve works by Rubens are on display, including the elegant and powerful Portrait of a Young Woman, holding a chain, found only a decade ago and here displayed for the first time to the public, and the monumental Saint Francis of Assisi receiving the stigmata.

   

Anthony Van Dyck - 1599–1641
Portrait of Johannes Malderus - 1628c. - oil on canvas

Anthony Van Dyck - 1599–1641
John VIII, Count of Nassau-Siegen - 1583–1638  
1628–1629c. - oil on canvas

Frans II Pourbus - 1569–1622
Princess Elisabeth of France - 1602– 1644) - later Isabelle, Queen of Spain - 1610–1612 - oil on canvas

 

 Andries Van Eertvelt - 1590–1652
Storm at Sea - The Battle of Lepanto? – 1623 - oil on canvas cm

 

Michaelina Wautier - 1617–1689
Two Girls as Saints Agnes and Dorothy - 1655c. - oil on canvas

Michaelina Wautier was one of the female artists of the early modern era, was also active in Brussels. On display is her unusual Portrait of Two Girls as Saint Agnes and Saint Dorothea, showing two girls posing as the young martyrs. 

 

Jan Cossiers - 1600–1671
A Merry Company - The Five Senses
Post / After 1650 - oil on canvas

Peter Paul Rubens – 1577-1640
The Triumphal Chariot of Kallo – 1638 – detail – oil on panel

Gabriella Belli, Director Fondazione Musei Civici di Venezia, Ben van Beneden, Director Rubenshuis and Daniela Ferretti Director Palazzo Fortuny

 

Elisabetta Barisoni, Director Ca’ Pesaro, Andrea Bellieni, Director Museo Correr, and Mariacristina Gribaudi, President Fondazione Musei Civici di Venezia

 

Chiara Squarcina Director Museo di Palazzo Mocenigo and Museo del Vetro, Murano

The Sparkle and Allure of Facon de Venise Glass