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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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The Triumph of the Church (mk05)
Oil on panel
86x106cm
Painting ID:: 20862
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The_Triumph_of_the_Church_(mk05)
Oil on panel
86x106cm
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Portrait of Susanne Fourment (mk08)
c.1625
Oil on panel.
79x54.5cm
London,National Gallery
Painting ID:: 21652
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Portrait_of_Susanne_Fourment_(mk08)
c.1625
Oil on panel.
79x54.5cm
London,National Gallery
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Venus at a Mirror (mk08)
c.1615
Oil on panel.
124x98cm
Vaduz,Sammlung Furst von Liechtenstein
Painting ID:: 21656
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Venus_at_a_Mirror_(mk08)
c.1615
Oil on panel.
124x98cm
Vaduz,Sammlung Furst von Liechtenstein
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The Four Philosophers (mk08)
c.1611
Oil on panel
164x139cm
Florence,Palazzo Pitti,
Galleria Palatina
Painting ID:: 21697
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The_Four_Philosophers_(mk08)
c.1611
Oil on panel
164x139cm
Florence,Palazzo Pitti,
Galleria Palatina
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Stormy Landscape with Philemon und Baucis(mk08)
c.1620
Oil on canvas
147x209cm
Vienna,Kunsthistorisches Museum
Painting ID:: 21698
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Stormy_Landscape_with_Philemon_und_Baucis(mk08)
c.1620
Oil on canvas
147x209cm
Vienna,Kunsthistorisches Museum
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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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