All Faces of Art (Before Instagram)

The Antwerp Museum of Fine Arts is dedicating an exhibition of works by Rubens, Rembrandt and Vermeer to an artistic genre: the study of heads

Left: “The Bitter Drink” by Adriaen Brouwer. On the right “The Smoker” by Joos van Craesbieeck Städel Museum, Frankfurt/Louvre Museum, Paris

In the age of Instagram, TikTok, selfies, emojis, gifs…, every day we are bombarded with faces, but it wasn’t always like this. The first major exhibition at the Royal Museum of Fine Arts in Antwerp after reopening in September 2022 focuses on…

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