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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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Minerva Conquering Ignorance (mk01)
1632-4
Oil on canvas;
Banqueting House,
Whitehall,
London
Painting ID:: 20245
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Minerva_Conquering_Ignorance_(mk01)
1632-4
Oil on canvas;
Banqueting House,
Whitehall,
London
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The Union of the Crowns (mk01)
1632-4
Oil on canvas;
Banqueting House,
Whitehall,
London
Painting ID:: 20247
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The_Union_of_the_Crowns_(mk01)
1632-4
Oil on canvas;
Banqueting House,
Whitehall,
London
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The Peaceful Reign of King Fames i (mk01)
1632-4
Oil on canvas;
Banqueting
House,Whitehall,
London
Painting ID:: 20250
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The_Peaceful_Reign_of_King_Fames_i_(mk01)
1632-4
Oil on canvas;
Banqueting
House,Whitehall,
London
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Peace and Plenty Embracing (mk01)
c.1632-3
Oil sketch for The Peaceful Reign of King
Fames i
Oil on panel;
62.9x47cm
24 3/4x18 1/2in
Yale Center for British Art,
New Haven
Painting ID:: 20257
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Peace_and_Plenty_Embracing_(mk01)
c.1632-3
Oil sketch for The Peaceful Reign of King
Fames i
Oil on panel;
62.9x47cm
24 3/4x18 1/2in
Yale Center for British Art,
New Haven
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Cardinal-Infante Ferdinand (mk01)
C.1636
Oil on canvas;
116x94cm
45 5/8x37in
John and Mable
Ringling Museum of Art,
Sarasota,
Florida
Painting ID:: 20259
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Cardinal-Infante_Ferdinand_(mk01)
C.1636
Oil on canvas;
116x94cm
45 5/8x37in
John and Mable
Ringling Museum of Art,
Sarasota,
Florida
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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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