New website on Flemish Baroque art
July 10 2013
Picture: vlaamskunstcollectie.be
This looks interesting, a new website on Baroque Flemish art. The site gathers together works from museums across Flanders, and has notes of lectures and new research.
Readers won't be surprised to hear that I went straight to the Van Dyck section. There's some good stuff on there, though this portrait of Abbe Scaglia is not thought to be autograph in the latest catalogue raisonne, and is most likely a copy after the original in the National Gallery, London. Also, it's not absolutely certain, as the website's biography of Van Dyck states, that Rubens called Van Dyck his 'best pupil'. As the recent 'Young Van Dyck' exhibition catalogue pointed out, Rubens did not explicitly name Van Dyck in the letter concerned, and in any case Van Dyck was Rubens' assistant, not his pupil inthe conventional sense.
