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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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Mourning over Christ by Mary and John
1614
Oil on panel
40,5 x 52,5 cm Rahmenmaße: 55,3 x 67,5 x 8,5 cm
Painting ID:: 70575
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Mourning_over_Christ_by_Mary_and_John
1614
Oil on panel
40,5 x 52,5 cm Rahmenmaße: 55,3 x 67,5 x 8,5 cm
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Three Graces
Medium Oil on panel
Dimensions Expression error: Missing operand for *119 ?? 99 cm
Painting ID:: 70676
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Three_Graces
Medium Oil on panel
Dimensions Expression error: Missing operand for *119 ?? 99 cm
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Nymphen Satyrn und Hunde
Medium Oil on wood
Dimensions Deutsch: 62 ?? 99 cm
Painting ID:: 70680
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Nymphen_Satyrn_und_Hunde
Medium Oil on wood
Dimensions Deutsch: 62 ?? 99 cm
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Die Flucht nach Agypten
Medium Oil on panel
Dimensions 40,5 x 53 cm
Painting ID:: 70705
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Die_Flucht_nach_Agypten
Medium Oil on panel
Dimensions 40,5 x 53 cm
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St Francis of Assisi Receiving the Stigmata
Medium Oil on canvas
Dimensions 264 x 192 cm
Painting ID:: 70716
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St_Francis_of_Assisi_Receiving_the_Stigmata
Medium Oil on canvas
Dimensions 264 x 192 cm
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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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