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Article: Rubens resplendent.(Art)(Peter Paul Rubens exhibition)
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- National Review
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- March 14, 2005
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THE most enchanting exhibition in New York at the moment is the show of drawings by the Baroque Flemish master Peter Paul Rubens (1577-1640) at the Metropolitan Museum of Art (through April 3). This gathering of 115 works on paper touches every phase of Rubens's career. Including apprentice drawings and anatomical studies, finished landscapes, compositional studies, and affectionate family portraits, it is one of those exhibitions that have something for everyone. Connoisseurs will nod over the several drawings that surfaced only in the late 1990s as well as such seldom-seen items as the more than 30 drawings on loan from that nonpareil repository of old-master drawings, ...