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Allegory on the Blessings of Peace
Painting ID:: 51297
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Peter Paul Rubens
Allegory on the Blessings of Peace
1629-30
Oil on canvas,
203.5 x 298 cm
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Portrait of a Chambermaid
Painting ID:: 51298
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Peter Paul Rubens
Portrait of a Chambermaid
c. 1625
Oil on panel, 63,5 x 47,5 cm
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Christ and Saint John with Angels
Painting ID:: 51723
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Peter Paul Rubens
Christ and Saint John with Angels
nn09
Oil on canvas
95x122cm
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The Prophet Elijah Receiving Bread and Water from an Angel
Painting ID:: 51766
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Peter Paul Rubens
The Prophet Elijah Receiving Bread and Water from an Angel
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c.1625-28
Oil on wood
65x55cm
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The Triumphal Car of Kallo
Painting ID:: 52001
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Peter Paul Rubens
The Triumphal Car of Kallo
1638
Oil on panel,
103 x 71 cm
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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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