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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Peter Paul Rubens St Christopber and the Hermit (mk01) oil


St Christopber and the Hermit (mk01)
Painting ID::  20151
St Christopber and the Hermit (mk01)
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Peter Paul Rubens St Christopber (mk01) oil


St Christopber (mk01)
Painting ID::  20152
St Christopber (mk01)
c.1598-9 Oil on copper; 22.5x17.5cm 8 7/8x6 7/8in Hermitage,St Petersburg
   
   
     

Peter Paul Rubens Fan Brueghel the Elder and his Family (mk01) oil


Fan Brueghel the Elder and his Family (mk01)
Painting ID::  20154
Fan Brueghel the Elder and his Family (mk01)
c.1612-13 Oil on panel; 124.5x94.6cm 49x37 1/4in Courtauld Institute Galleries,London
   
   
     

Peter Paul Rubens Fustus Lipsius and his Pupils or The Four Pbilosopbers (mk01) oil


Fustus Lipsius and his Pupils or The Four Pbilosopbers (mk01)
Painting ID::  20155
Fustus Lipsius and his Pupils or The Four Pbilosopbers (mk01)
c.1615. Oil on panel; 167X143cm 35 3/4x56 1/4in Galleria Pitti, Florence
   
   
     

Peter Paul Rubens The Raising of the Cross (mk01) oil


The Raising of the Cross (mk01)
Painting ID::  20156
The Raising of the Cross (mk01)
C.1610 Oil on panel; central panel; 68x51cm, 26 3/8x9 7/8in Musee du Louvre, Paris
   
   
     

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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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