Rubens and the Flemish Baroque Artists. Collections of the Prado Museum

Description

Exhibition

Rubens and the Artists of the Flemish Baroque. Museo del Prado Collections
May 29 - September 21, 2025

This exhibition reveals the intellectual intensity and aesthetic renewal of Rubens and his Flemish contemporaries, highlighting their artistic spectacle and the subtlety of their ideas and offering a comprehensive overview of the Flemish Baroque.

May 29 - September 21, 2025

Rubens's unparalleled creativity, his influence, and the aesthetic renewal he fostered are the focus of this exhibition, in which his paintings engage with works by artists such as Van Dyck, Jordaens, and Brueghel.
The exhibition brings together works and objects from the lesser-known collections of the Museo Nacional del Prado.

The influence of Peter Paul Rubens's style on other artists has made Flemish Baroque art one of the most evocative and visually compelling moments in Western culture.
Rubens was the driving force of a creative force that conquered 17th-century Europe. His passionate compositions, with an almost violent dynamism, and the sensuality conveyed by his work defined Baroque painting.

The nearly sixty pieces in this exhibition, including The Birth of Apollo and Diana, The Death of Seneca, and The Immaculate Conception, come from the Museo Nacional del Prado. The collection reveals the intellectual intensity and distinctive style of Rubens and his Flemish contemporaries, and is divided into seven sections: Divine Passions, Image and Counter-Reformation, The Enraptured Creation, Patronage and Collecting, Art and Propaganda, Faces and Personalities, and finally, Inside and Outside and Still Life, Living Nature.