Skip to main content
Content type

Antwerp celebrates Rubens

Rubens will be your host this year for the cultural city festival ‘Antwerp Baroque 2018: Rubens Inspires’. You can look forward to a bold and overflowing programme of Baroque, old and new. The Rubens House is the starting point for the celebrations.

Titian

Venetian admiral, probably Francesco Duodo

Otto van Veen

The Capture of Rome

Restoration of portico and garden pavilion completed

The imposing portico and garden pavilion at the Rubens House can now be viewed again by the public. After a year and a half, their restoration is complete. Rubens designed both features himself, making them rare evidence of Rubens as an architect.

Peter Paul Rubens

Emperor Aulus Vitellius Germanicus Augustus and emperor Titus Flavius Vespasian