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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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Landscape with Rainbow
mk68
Oil on canvas
Munich,Alte Pinakothek
c.1639
Netherlands
Painting ID:: 30572
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Landscape_with_Rainbow
mk68
Oil on canvas
Munich,Alte Pinakothek
c.1639
Netherlands
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Thomyris,Rene des Scythes fait plonger la tete de Cyrus dans un vase rempli de sang
mk70
Toile
H.2.63
L.1.99
Paris,Musee du Louvre
Painting ID:: 31019
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Thomyris,Rene_des_Scythes_fait_plonger_la_tete_de_Cyrus_dans_un_vase_rempli_de_sang
mk70
Toile
H.2.63
L.1.99
Paris,Musee du Louvre
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La Vierge a l'enfant entoure des saints Innocents
mk70
Toile
H.1.38
L.1.00
Paris,Musee du Louvre
Painting ID:: 31020
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La_Vierge_a_l'enfant_entoure_des_saints_Innocents
mk70
Toile
H.1.38
L.1.00
Paris,Musee du Louvre
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La Kermesse ou Noce de village
mk70
Bois
H.1.49
L.2.61
Paris,Musee du Louvre
Painting ID:: 31021
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La_Kermesse_ou_Noce_de_village
mk70
Bois
H.1.49
L.2.61
Paris,Musee du Louvre
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Recreation by our Gallery
mk79
1607
Painting ID:: 32534
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Recreation_by_our_Gallery
mk79
1607
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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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