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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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Stormy Landscape with Philemon und Baucis
mk86
c.1620
Oil on canvas
147x209cm
Vienna,Kunsthistorisches Museum
Painting ID:: 33665
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Stormy_Landscape_with_Philemon_und_Baucis
mk86
c.1620
Oil on canvas
147x209cm
Vienna,Kunsthistorisches Museum
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Rubens with his first wife Isabella Brant in the Honeysuckle Bower
mk86
c.1609/10
Oil on canvas-covered panel
178x136.5cm
Munich,Bayerische Staatsgemalde-sammlungen,Alte Pinakothek
Painting ID:: 33666
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Rubens_with_his_first_wife_Isabella_Brant_in_the_Honeysuckle_Bower
mk86
c.1609/10
Oil on canvas-covered panel
178x136.5cm
Munich,Bayerische Staatsgemalde-sammlungen,Alte Pinakothek
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The Landing of Marie de'Medici at Marseilles
mk86
c.1622-1625
Oil on canvas
394x295cm
Paris,Musee National du Louvre
Painting ID:: 33667
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The_Landing_of_Marie_de'Medici_at_Marseilles
mk86
c.1622-1625
Oil on canvas
394x295cm
Paris,Musee National du Louvre
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The Rape of the Daughters of Leucippus
mk86
c.1618
Oil on canvas
224x210.5cm
Munich
Painting ID:: 33668
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The_Rape_of_the_Daughters_of_Leucippus
mk86
c.1618
Oil on canvas
224x210.5cm
Munich
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Hippoptamus and Crocodile Hunt
mk86
c.1615/16
Oil on canvas
248x321cm
Painting ID:: 33669
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Hippoptamus_and_Crocodile_Hunt
mk86
c.1615/16
Oil on canvas
248x321cm
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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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