Digitizing the Corpus Rubenianum Ludwig Burchard: completion
Up-to-date information, more (colour) illustrations, downloadable and OCR searchable: since 2013, large parts of the Corpus Rubenianum Ludwig Burchard have been made available online.
The complete oeuvre of Rubens online
For more than 400 years, Peter Paul Rubens has been a colossus in international art history. With this project, we are taking an important step towards completing the digital version of the largest oeuvre catalogue ever. This essential resource for Flemish art brings together artworks scattered all over the world at the click of a mouse.
The first phase of this project already took place in 2013-2016. 19 volumes of the Corpus Rubenianum Ludwig Burchard were then made available online as downloadable and searchable files. Enhanced with links to digital artwork records in the online database RKDimages, they offer the most up-to-date information on the works of Peter Paul Rubens.
In the second phase of the project, which runs from 2023 to 2027, we are supplementing the digital artwork records in RKDimages with the artworks that have featured in the Corpus Rubenianum since 2009. The 21 books won't be immediately consultable online, but the data will become available, searchable and completed in this way.
The digital artwork records represent a digital update of the printed books, with the latest bibliographic references and information on provenance. Unlike the books, as many records as possible feature a (colour) image. Digital versions of the paintings and drawings that were not known when the paper book was published will be added during this project.
In the process, the Rubenshuis and the Centrum Rubenianum non-profit association are creating the largest digital oeuvre catalogue on a single artist in the world. The dataset we are producing in this regard offers a host of possibilities for the future. We continue to work hard behind the scenes. Stay tuned!
Consult the digital Corpus Rubenianum
With the support of the Flemish Government, Digital Resources Grants Program of the Samuel H. Kress Foundation and the City of Antwerp. In collaboration with the RKD - Netherlands Institute for Art History.
