The Sistine Chapel in a council house – the week in art

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I Am Van Dyck
So who was Anthony van Dyck? This 17th-century Flemish painter who died in Britain as the civil war started is a strangely elusive figure. The most brilliant pupil of Rubens and one of the great technical masters of all time, he seems to have been happy to ply his trade as a portraitist of the cavalier aristocracy in Charles I’s England. Some of his portraits have a startling truthfulness – and that goes for his celebrated last self-portrait, which is scrutinised in this show alongside self-portraits by Turner prize-winner Mark Wallinger. Is Van Dyck, then, the true father of modern British art?
• Dulwich Picture Gallery, London, 12 January-24 April.

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