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Mar 9, 2023 · Amanda Bradley Petitgas (co-founder of Athena Art Foundation) explores this masterpiece by Peter Paul Rubens. This is the penultimate video in our six-part s...
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- Athena Art Foundation
Nov 30, 2018 · Bold, big and rich with detail, the works of 17th-century artist Peter Paul Rubens have a definite flair for the dramatic. And here’s some exciting news: In October 2019, the AGO will host an extraordinary exhibition of this daring Flemish painter’s ambitious early work.
One of the most famous and valuable paintings in the AGO Collection, The Massacre of the Innocents underscores Rubens’s achievement as a painter and provides powerful insight into the mindset of the citizens of Antwerp in 1610, giving expression to their collective trauma instigated by religious warfare. Visitors will see this work in a new ...
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Oct 12, 2019 · Take a quick video tour of the Early Rubens exhibition at the Art Gallery of Ontario, running Oct. 12, 2019 to Jan. 5, 2020. The exhibition features work that Rubens created after he returned...
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- Alice Hopton
Art Gallery of Ontario. AGO’s collection of close to 95,000 works ranges from cutting-edge contemporary art to European masterpieces; from the vast collection by the Group of Seven to works by established and emerging Indigenous Canadian artists.
The Massacre of the Innocents is the subject of two paintings by Peter Paul Rubens depicting the episode of the biblical Massacre of the Innocents of Bethlehem, as related in the Gospel of Matthew (2:13–18).
Oct 14, 2019 · The Art Gallery of Ontario’s new exhibition devoted to the early work of Peter Paul Rubens culminates with that museum’s own big prize, The Massacre of the Innocents, and AGO director...
