Large-scale Rubens, Van Dyck exhibition to open in Budapest!

Some 30 paintings by Rubens and more than a dozen by Van Dyck are on display at a large-scale exhibition opening in Budapest’s Museum of Fine Arts on Wednesday, the museum’s director told the press on Monday.

The exhibition showcases the Golden Age of Flemish painting through the art of Peter Paul Rubens, the foremost Baroque master of European art and that of his contemporaries.

Its main goal is to highlight Rubens’s genius and the influence of his art during his age, and the versatile, stylistically and thematically rich 17th-century Flemish painting.

Another important aspect of the Budapest show is to draw attention to the extensive cultural ties between the Southern Netherlands and Hungary, in which a key figure was Archduke Leopold Wilhelm of Austria.

The Fine Arts Museum’s main cooperating partner, the Liechtenstein Museum in Vienna, has contributed 20 masterpieces including a piece from Rubens’ monumental Decius Mus cycle, the Decius Mus Relating His Dream.