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Aparicion of Maria to San IIdefonso Painting ID:: 42048
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Peter Paul Rubens Aparicion of Maria to San IIdefonso mk166
1630-1632
I Wave on Natural History Museum cloth Vienna
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The robbery of the daughters of Leucippus Painting ID:: 42691
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Peter Paul Rubens The robbery of the daughters of Leucippus MK169
ca.1616-17 Shut down 222.3x209cm Alte Pinakothek Munchen
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The Wounds Van St. Franciscus Xaverius Painting ID:: 42692
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Peter Paul Rubens The Wounds Van St. Franciscus Xaverius MK169
1616-17 Shut down 535x395cm
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Landscape with Rainbow Painting ID:: 42695
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Peter Paul Rubens Landscape with Rainbow MK169
ca. 1635 Panel 94.6x123.2cm
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Portrait of Isabella Brant Painting ID:: 42697
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Peter Paul Rubens Portrait of Isabella Brant MK169
ca. 1622 Black, red and white chalk, light plants on light brown paper, eyes with pen and black ink accentuated
38.1x29.5cm British Museum, Rewarded
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Peter Paul Rubens
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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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