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 The Apotheosis of Henry IV and the Proclamation of the Regency of Marie de Medici on the 14th of May oil painting


The Apotheosis of Henry IV and the Proclamation of the Regency of Marie de Medici on the 14th of May
1622-24 Musee du Louvre, Paris
Painting ID::  3672 		Peter Paul Rubens
The Apotheosis of Henry IV and the Proclamation of the Regency of Marie de Medici on the 14th of May
1622-24 Musee du Louvre, Paris
   
   
     
Peter Paul Rubens Portrait of Marie de Medici oil painting


Portrait of Marie de Medici
1622 Museo del Prado, Madrid
Painting ID::  3673 		Peter Paul Rubens
Portrait of Marie de Medici
1622 Museo del Prado, Madrid
   
   
     
Peter Paul Rubens The Raising of the Cross oil painting


The Raising of the Cross
1620-21 Musee du Louvre, Paris
Painting ID::  3674 		Peter Paul Rubens
The Raising of the Cross
1620-21 Musee du Louvre, Paris
   
   
     
Peter Paul Rubens Perseus Liberating Andromeda oil painting


Perseus Liberating Andromeda
1620's The Hermitage, St.Petersburg
Painting ID::  3675 		Peter Paul Rubens
Perseus Liberating Andromeda
1620's The Hermitage, St.Petersburg
   
   
     
Peter Paul Rubens The Rape of the Daughters of Leucippus oil painting


The Rape of the Daughters of Leucippus
1618 Alte Pinakothek, Munich
Painting ID::  3676 		Peter Paul Rubens
The Rape of the Daughters of Leucippus
1618 Alte Pinakothek, Munich
   
   
     
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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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