The Calydonian Boar Hunt (detail), about 1611–1612, Peter Paul Rubens. Oil on panel. The J. Paul Getty Museum
Rubens: Picturing Antiquity
GETTY VILLA
Museum, Floor 2
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Passion for the art and literature of classical antiquity inspired the dynamic Flemish painter Peter Paul Rubens (1577–1640). Presented amid the antiquities collection at the Getty Villa, this exhibition juxtaposes the artist’s exhilarating drawings, oil sketches, and monumental paintings with rarely shown ancient objects, including exquisite gems owned by Rubens himself. Heroic nudes, fierce hunts, splendid military processions, and Bacchic revels attest to the artist’s extraordinary ability to translate an array of sources into new subjects.