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 Landscape with a Rainbow (mk01) oil


Landscape with a Rainbow (mk01)
Painting ID::  20287
Landscape with a Rainbow (mk01)
c.1635-8 Oil on panel; 135.5x233.5cm 53 3/8x92in Wallace Collection, London
   
   
     

Peter Paul Rubens Haymaking or Fuly (mk01) oil


Haymaking or Fuly (mk01)
Painting ID::  20288
Haymaking or Fuly (mk01)
C.1565 Oil on panel; 117x161cm 46x63 3/8in Narodnie Galerie, Prague
   
   
     

Peter Paul Rubens Sunset Landscape with a Sbepberd and his Flock (mk01) oil


Sunset Landscape with a Sbepberd and his Flock (mk01)
Painting ID::  20289
Sunset Landscape with a Sbepberd and his Flock (mk01)
c.1638 Oil on panel; 49.4x83.5cm 19 3/8 32 7/8in National Gallery, London
   
   
     

Peter Paul Rubens Flemisb Kermis or Kermesse Flamande (mk01) oil


Flemisb Kermis or Kermesse Flamande (mk01)
Painting ID::  20290
Flemisb Kermis or Kermesse Flamande (mk01)
C.1630 Oil on panel; 149x261cm 58 5/8x102 3/4in Musee du Louvre, Paris
   
   
     

Peter Paul Rubens A Peasant Kermis (mk01) oil


A Peasant Kermis (mk01)
Painting ID::  20292
A Peasant Kermis (mk01)
C.1567-8 Oil on panel; 114x164cm 44 7/8x64 1/2in Kunst-historisches Museum, Vienna
   
   
     

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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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