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 Helena Fourment Seated on a Terrace (mk01) oil


Helena Fourment Seated on a Terrace (mk01)
Painting ID::  20231
Helena Fourment Seated on a Terrace (mk01)
c.1630-1 Oil on canvas; 163.5x137cm 64 3/8x53 7/8in Alte Pinakothek, Munich
   
   
     

Peter Paul Rubens Susanna Fourment or Le Cbapeau de Paille (mk01) oil


Susanna Fourment or Le Cbapeau de Paille (mk01)
Painting ID::  20232
Susanna Fourment or Le Cbapeau de Paille (mk01)
c.1622-5 Oil on panel; 79x54.5cm 31 1/8x21 1/2in National Gallery, London
   
   
     

Peter Paul Rubens Helena Fourment with Two of ber Cbildren (mk01) oil


Helena Fourment with Two of ber Cbildren (mk01)
Painting ID::  20237
Helena Fourment with Two of ber Cbildren (mk01)
C.1636 Oil on panel; 113x82cm 44 1/2x32 Musee du Louvre,Paris
   
   
     

Peter Paul Rubens The Feast of Venus (mk01) oil


The Feast of Venus (mk01)
Painting ID::  20238
The Feast of Venus (mk01)
Mid-1630s Oil on canvas; 217x350cm 85 3/8x137 3/4in Kunst-historisches Museum,Vienna
   
   
     

Peter Paul Rubens The Tbree Graces (mk01) oil


The Tbree Graces (mk01)
Painting ID::  20239
The Tbree Graces (mk01)
Mid-1630s Oil on panel; 221x181cm 87x71 1/4in Museo del Prado,Madrid
   
   
     

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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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