Saints, Sinners, Lovers, and Fools

Saints, Sinners, Lovers, and Fools: 300 Years of Flemish Masterworks
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June 28, 2025 to November 30, 2025
  • Level 3, Third Floor Centre Block
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The Southern Netherlands — better known today as Flanders — was home to revolutionary artists such as Peter Paul Rubens, Anthony Van Dyck, Hans Memling, and others. These extraordinary painters found new ways to depict reality, portray humanity, and tell stories that created parallels to their world then - and to our world today.

This large-scale exhibition, featuring over 80 stunning art works and objects — medieval, Renaissance, and baroque paintings, sculptures and more — offers a doorway into the Southern Netherlands of 1400 to 1700, a dynamic environment where new artistic genres and styles were created and flourished. The exhibition's unique presentation introduces the visitor, through these rare, extraordinary artworks, to stories of enterprising townspeople, prosperous cities, and an ever-developing society.

Mark your calendars. Saints, Sinners, Lovers, and Fools: 300 Years of Flemish Masterworks arrives at ROM for Summer 2025. 

Saints, Sinners, Lovers, and Fools: 300 Years of Flemish Masterworks is co-organized by the Denver Art Museum and The Phoebus Foundation SON, Antwerp (Belgium).

 

This exhibition is generously supported by the Royal Exhibitions Circle.

Image: Peter Paul Rubens, Diana and her Nymphs Hunting, c.1636 - 1637. ©The Phoebus Foundation, Antwerp.