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I guess that most of you will be familiar with paintings of the Baroque painter Rubens (if not try google ;-p) and can therefor imagine what kind of atmosphere one would expect in his house.
And right so: his house has the feel of being in between the middle ages and the more frivolous classical times. There's dark wooden chests and chairs; and golden leather on the walls in several rooms. Biblical scenes and many many antique gods and satyrs.
The Garden is especially nice. It looks like the perfect place to have a Roman banquet or orgy. There's many nice plants and even grapes and a citrustree.
Yes, Rubens had a very nice place to live, and in the middle of a big city too!
Lucky for us it was a free visit again; otherwise I don't think we'd have paid the full fee of 6 euro's because that's a bit much for just seeing some-ones house and garden no matter how beautiful ;-)
the father of my sons..
ReplyDeleteluved antwerpen..
and he told me abt rubenshuis..
grazia..
The house of Plantin-Moretus in Antwerp is a "must see".
ReplyDeleteIt is a beautiful house, with awesome rooms, saloons, paintings of famous painters, a very nice court, and above all...
all you want to know about bookbinding and book-printing.
The Library is very famous. A lot of people come here to study, to search in old documents and encyclopedias. The collection of old books contains over 25,000 volumes. The lion's share of them is in the beautiful, main library, , included in the museum visit.
For more info look at http://museum.antwerpen.be/plantin_moretus/
We have visited the house this weekend.
ReplyDeleteIt was for free, because of "Open Monumentendag".
I was a little bit disappointed because some of the rooms had it's original furniture,
while others had not, and that was my disappointment.
When one can visit the grand masters' bedroom, one expect to see at least his bed,
but there were only paintings.
Also, in his studio, there were hug and lovely paintings, and therefore (ofcourse) the huge windows were covered to block the lite. Now, I would have preferred this paintings being in a museum and I would have loved to see his studio as it was, with all the light, and with some drawings and paint so you could have an idea of how the master would have worked...
The garden, I agree, was fabulous!!!
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