Power and Grace: Notes on an Exhibition

Friday, January 19, 2018, 12 pm
Tickets: 
$15; free for members and students with a valid ID. Tickets include free admission for the day of the program.

Ilona van Tuinen

Drawings played a central role in the artistic practice of the three giants of the Flemish Baroque: Peter Paul Rubens (1577–1640), Anthony van Dyck (1599–1641), and Jacob Jordaens (1593–1678). Join Ilona van Tuinen, curator of the exhibition Power and Grace: Drawings by Rubens, Van Dyck, and Jordaens, for a discussion of the spectacular works on display and the story behind the show.

The exhibition Power and Grace: Drawings by Rubens, Van Dyck, and Jordaens will be open for program attendees.

Anthony van Dyck (1599–1641), Study for the Dead Christ, ca. 1635–40, black chalk, heightened with white chalk, on gray-blue paper, purchased by Pierpont Morgan (1837– 1913) in 1909, The Morgan Library & Museum, I, 243. Photography by Steven H Crossot, 2014.

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