The city palace of Baroque painter Peter Paul Rubens is partly reopening this weekend. It allows Antwerp to show off the life and work of perhaps its most famous citizen. The Rubens House may not have as many paintings as Madrid’s Prado museum or the canvas surface spread around the port city’s Cathedral of Our Lady.
A man sits on a bench near the pavilion in the newly restored garden of the Rubens House in Antwerp , Belgium, Wednesday, Aug. 28, 2024. People watch the Rubens Experience audiovisual display in the reception center at the Rubens House in Antwerp , Belgium, Wednesday, Aug. 28, 2024. Plantings in the newly restored garden of the Rubens House in Antwerp , Belgium, Wednesday, Aug. 28, 2024.
While the core of the house remains closed until at least 2030 for ongoing renovations, the dazzling new welcome center and the redesigned garden will open doors on Friday. The garden provides an outdoor space between the reception center and the main house — a route for the visitor to move between past and present and to contemplate the world of Rubens. It features nearly 17,500 plants and in a nod to Belgian fashion, Antwerp-based fashion designer Dries van Noten was consulted on the colour scheme.
Some of his letters mention orange and lime trees and figs, said Alen. “We also poured through historical documents to see what was planted in that time, but also wanted to uncover new information and that’s where we came upon tulips.”
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