March 28, 2015 |
Rubenesque is what you call a fat woman when you are being polite. And that is because Rubens liked painting fat women. Not “dead horse women”, as Vincent once called women on the other side of the spectrum. The same artist is the subject of this exhibition at the Royal Academy, which brings together masterpieces produced during his lifetime, as well as work by other masters who were influence by him later on, from portraits by Van Dyck to landscapes by Constable. A must-see for culture vultures and chubby chasers alike.
Image: Pan and Syrinx (1617) by Peter Paul Rubens, Museumslandschaft Hessen Kassel, Gemaldegalerie Alte Meister, Kassel; photograph by Museumslandschaft Hessen Kassel, Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister/Ute Brunzel
Rubens and His Legacy, until Apr 10; Royal Academy, W1.
By Ted Stansfield
