Exhibition - Past

Christmas in the Rockox House. Examples from its collection of early 16th to mid 17th century treasures. 11/12/2012 - 13/01/2013.

(Altarpiece, The Adoration of the Kings, 1525, copyright KBC Erwin Donvil)

From Tuesday 11 December 2012 up to and including Sunday 13 January 2013, the Rockox House will be busy preparing for the project The Golden Cabinet, and will therefore be partly closed. Two rooms will remain open, however, to display several Christmas treasures from the Rockox collection. Entry is free to all.

The Rockox House will be fully closed to the public from Monday 14 January to Friday 1 February 2013 inclusive.

Summer in Rockox’ garden, Share his passion! 6/6 – 31/10/2012.

For the exhibition Summer in Rockox’s Garden: share his passion! the inner courtyard of the Rockox House has been turned into an evocation of the sort of seventeenth-century garden retreat that a patrician like Nicolaas Rockox would have had. In order to set the scene properly, the Rockox House Museum has joined forces with the Artesis University College Antwerp. Students of the Painting Department have decked out the Rockox town garden with paintings, perspective views on the doors, exotic birds on boards against the wall and trompe-l’oeils against the windows and in the cellar windows; students of the Ceramics Department have embellished the garden beds with a variety of ceramic pots in typical majolica colours; and students of the Sound Design Department of the Royal Academy of Fine Arts, lastly, have equipped the garden with a series of surprising sounds, based on the four elements of water, fire, earth and air. Displayed in the museum itself are rare seventeenth-century tiles picturing flowers, plants, insects and birds; also on show are some of the sources from which the tile decorators drew their inspiration – among other things, fine engravings from the like of Adriaan Collaert and Stradanus. Botanical books also served as a model for the tile decorator, and Rockox had quite a number of them; in his time, they were valuable items, costing as much as a family car todayn.A visitors’ guide is available free of charge.
 

Triomf op wielen - Rubens' ontwerp voor de Zegewagen van Kallo. 11/02 - 13/05/2012.

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