“Rubens and the artists of the Flemish Baroque” exhibition

Rubens is the gravitational centre of this constellation of Flemish geniuses. Around him orbit Van Dyck, Jordaens and Brueghel, artists who turned colour, flesh and gesture into a new way of seeing the world. Works such as The Death of Seneca and The Birth of Apollo and Diana do not merely represent stories: they embody them.

Divided into seven thematic sections—from “Divine Passions” to “Living Nature”—the exhibition reveals how Flemish Baroque art was not only aesthetic, but deeply political and emotional. A visual symphony in which devotion, luxury, drama and everyday life coexist.

Rubens painted as one composes an opera: with excess, with soul, with ambition. And this tour is the best seat from which to see—and feel—how his legacy continues to beat four centuries later.