Rubens and Women at Dulwich Picture Gallery review: a fresh look at breathtaking beauty
by Melanie McDonagh
Nov 27, 2023
2 minutes
The thing about Rubens was, he loved women. He loved his mother, Marie, who was the rock that anchored the family, he loved his first wife, Isabella Brand, his much younger second wife, Helena Fourment, his daughters.
And not to put too fine a point upon it, he liked plump rather than etiolated women. One of the points this exhibition at the Dulwich Picture Gallery seeks to make is
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