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Until April 10th
Last week to see From Rubens to Van Dyck. The Gerstenmaier´s Flemish painting collection
April 04, 2016Large format still lifes, as Still Life, by Jan van Kessel the Old, are some of the main pieces of the exhibition From Rubens to Van Dyck. The Gerstenmaier’s Flemish painting collection.
The Museo Nacional de San Carlos hosts this exhibition made up of 59 works, including oil paintings and engravings of religious painting, portrait, still lifes, and mythology figures.
Works by artists such as Peter Paul Rubens, Anthony van Dyck, Martin de Vos, Victor Wolfvoet, Jan de Beer, Joost de Momper the Younger and Jan Brueghel the Elder, among others.
The exhibition will allow the public to make a historical and esthetic tour of the Flemish School of the fifteenth to eighteenth centuries through compiled works by Hans Rudolf Gerstenmaier, German businessman who lives in Spain.
From Rubens to Van Dyck, has been visited by 30, 234 people and has three main themes: religion, mythology and still life and landscape, exhibiting masterpieces full of details, with a splendid handling of colors and wonderful engravings, of over 400 years old.
The visitor will find in the religious nature works that the evident inspiration was the Christian faith through pieces such as The Virgin of Cumberland, by Rubens, and the Triptych of the Adoration of the Magi, by Von Groote.
The visitor will also discover that the portrait occupied an important place in the works of that time, because the human being was considered as the undisputed center of the universe and this type of paintings was reserved for certain classes. In this category stand out the portraits of Philip IV and Isabella of Bourbon, by Rubens, and Jacoba van Caestre, by Van Dyck.
The exhibition also allow you to appreciate how the landscape acquired its own identity and artists began to give greater importance to the representation of nature from the fifteenth century. One example is Mountain landscape with mules, a joint work of Joost de Momper the Younger and Jan Brueghel the Elder.
Another theme present in the Museo Nacional de San Carlos is the mythology figures, as the artists of the time took as inspiration Homer, Horace, Seneca’s classics texts and mainly Metamorphoses, by Ovid. In this section, the series of The Three Graces by Hendrik Goltzius stands out.
The still lifes are very important in this exhibition, either by the large format, the composition, the play with light and chiaroscuro or perfect imitation of nature. An example of these characteristics is in Birds, by Alexander Adriaenssen.
However, one of the jewels of the exhibition is the Virgin of Cumberland, by Rubens, that took Rudolf Gerstenmaier over three years to acquire it, and the printed series entitled Iconography of illustrious men, by Anton van Dyck and made for intellectuals, artists and politicians of the time.
From Rubens to Van Dyck. The Gerstenmaier’s Flemish painting collection can be visited from Tuesday to Sunday from 10:00 to 18:00 hours, until April 10th at the Museo Nacional de San Carlos located in Puente de Alvarado No. 50, Colonia Tabacalera, delegación Cuauhtémoc. Ticket $45
Mexico,Distrito Federal
