Denverites have a chance to see a body of work that has never been shown before in the United States at the Denver Art Museum.
Of course, you have to pay for it — $23 if you are not a museum member or $12 if you are — and that is surely something to consider. But the exhibition does live up to its name. There is a high level of drama — sacred, social, sensual — in every frame.
They have plenty to compete with in this exhibition, which features art made in the 15th to 17th centuries in and around Flanders, now part of Belgium. It was a place of great prosperity back in those days. Cities like Antwerp held deep religious beliefs and immense wealth, which — as history has shown again and again — often adds up to great art.
The more important names for visitors are the artistd themselves, some fairly well known, such as Hans Memling, Peter Paul Rubens and Anthony van Dyck, though this show is about Flemish art in general more than superstars. From there, the exhibition is arranged thematically rather than along chronological lines, starting with “God is in the Details,” a grouping of pious works that show how Christianity dominated the day. Memling’s early oil painting “The Nativity,” from about 1480 — a solemn scene with Mary and a trio of winged angels gazing at the baby Jesus — sets a serene tone.
The rest of the show follows that cue. The next section, “From God to the Individual,” is a set of aristocratic portraits that depict both the social customs and fashion of the day, but also the rise of a wealthy class and the vanity that always accompanies it.
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