Van Gogh in
Cathedral
Groenplaats 21, Antwerpen
The cathedral still exists and is open to the public.
Van Gogh in
Cathedral
Vincent visited Antwerp’s Cathedral of Our Lady to admire more paintings by Peter Paul Rubens (1577–1640), a few of whose works he had seen at the Musée Ancien. Four of Rubens’s religious paintings hung in the cathedral; Vincent mentioned two triptychs, The Raising of the Cross (1609–1610) and The Descent from the Cross (1612), in his letters. He admired Rubens’s exceptional skill at expressing human sorrow and praised him for painting beautiful everyday women.
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