Van Dyck's Court Portraits and Flemish Golden Age Exhibition at Forte di Bard

An exhibition titled 'Golden Age. Jordaens, Rubens, Brueghel' is currently on display at Forte di Bard in Aosta, featuring works by Flemish masters including Anthony van Dyck. The show highlights Van Dyck's career as a court painter to Charles I of England, his artistic development under Peter Paul Rubens in Antwerp, and his Italian tour where he studied Venetian color techniques. Van Dyck is noted for his aristocratic portraits, including the triple portrait of Charles I created for Gian Lorenzo Bernini's sculpture. The exhibition, running until June 2, 2016, presents 114 paintings from the Dutch Golden Age, with scholarly analysis by art historian Svetlana Alpers on the descriptive nature of Flemish art.