Per Rumberg – Van Dyck and Titian

Anthony van Dyck (1599-1641) was a great admirer of Titian (c. 1488-1576), a passion he shared with his patron, King Charles I (1600-1649). Van Dyck owned a number of works by Titian, such as the Man with a Blue Sleeve and the Vendramin Family, now both at the National Gallery, London. This talk will explore Titian’s impact on van Dyck, considering van Dyck’s so-called Italian Sketchbook at the British Museum, London, as well as the importance of the works in the collection of Charles I. 

Per Rumberg is Curator at the Royal Academy of Arts, London. He previously worked at the Morgan Library & Museum, New York, and the National Gallery, London, where he was one of the curators of the exhibition Leonardo da Vinci: Painter at the Court of Milan (2011–12). He studied at the Courtauld Institute of Art, London, and Humboldt University, Berlin, and was a Visiting Fellow at the Kunsthistorisches Institut, Florence. His expertise and interests range from the Italian Renaissance to the twenty-first century.