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Peter Paul Rubens Miracles of St Francis Xavier oil painting


Miracles of St Francis Xavier
Painting ID::  39658
Peter Paul Rubens
Miracles of St Francis Xavier
mk150 c.1616/17 Oak 104.5x72.5cm

   
   
     

Peter Paul Rubens Stormy lanscape with Philemon and Baucis oil painting


Stormy lanscape with Philemon and Baucis
Painting ID::  39659
Peter Paul Rubens
Stormy lanscape with Philemon and Baucis
mk150 c.1620/25 Oak 146x208.5cm

   
   
     

Peter Paul Rubens The Four great rivers of  Antiquity oil painting


The Four great rivers of Antiquity
Painting ID::  39660
Peter Paul Rubens
The Four great rivers of Antiquity
mk150 c.1615 Canvas 208x283cm

   
   
     

Peter Paul Rubens Feast of Venus oil painting


Feast of Venus
Painting ID::  39661
Peter Paul Rubens
Feast of Venus
mk150 c.1635/7 Canvas 217x350cm

   
   
     

Peter Paul Rubens Meetin of King Ferdinand of Hungary and the Cardinal Infante Ferdinand before the Battle of Nordingen oil painting


Meetin of King Ferdinand of Hungary and the Cardinal Infante Ferdinand before the Battle of Nordingen
Painting ID::  39662
Peter Paul Rubens
Meetin of King Ferdinand of Hungary and the Cardinal Infante Ferdinand before the Battle of Nordingen
mk150 1634/5 Canvas 328x388cm

   
   
     

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     Peter Paul Rubens
     Flemish Baroque Era Painter, 1577-1640 Peter Paul Rubens (June 28, 1577 ?C May 30, 1640) was a prolific seventeenth-century Flemish Baroque painter, and a proponent of an exuberant Baroque style that emphasized movement, color, and sensuality. He is well-known for his Counter-Reformation altarpieces, portraits, landscapes, and history paintings of mythological and allegorical subjects. In addition to running a large studio in Antwerp which produced paintings popular with nobility and art collectors throughout Europe, Rubens was a classically-educated humanist scholar, art collector, and diplomat who was knighted by both Philip IV, king of Spain, and Charles I, king of England. Rubens was a prolific artist. His commissioned works were mostly religious subjects, "history" paintings, which included mythological subjects, and hunt scenes. He painted portraits, especially of friends, and self-portraits, and in later life painted several landscapes. Rubens designed tapestries and prints, as well as his own house. He also oversaw the ephemeral decorations of the Joyous Entry into Antwerp by the Cardinal-Infante Ferdinand in 1635. His drawings are mostly extremely forceful but not detailed; he also made great use of oil sketches as preparatory studies. He was one of the last major artists to make consistent use of wooden panels as a support medium, even for very large works, but he used canvas as well, especially when the work needed to be sent a long distance. For altarpieces he sometimes painted on slate to reduce reflection problems. His fondness of painting full-figured women gave rise to the terms 'Rubensian' or 'Rubenesque' for plus-sized women. The term 'Rubensiaans' is also commonly used in Dutch to denote such women.

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