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Dec 5, 2014 · From his battle scenes to royal portraits, landscapes and altarpieces, Rubens’s extraordinary output occupies a uniquely heroic position in the history of art. Waldemar Januszczak argues that art was one thing before him – and another thing after.
- Waldemar Januszczak
The Royal Academy of Arts, located in the heart of London,...
- Rubens and His Legacy
La Peregrina Contemporary works join 'Rubens and His Legacy'...
- Royal Academy of Arts
The Royal Academy of Arts, located in the heart of London,...
- Waldemar Januszczak
- Childhood and Education
- Early Period
- Mature Period
- Late Period and Death
- The Legacy of Peter Paul Rubens
Peter Paul Rubens was one of six children born into a working-class family of tanners, lawyers, and burgesses in Antwerp, the busiest and richest seaport in Europe at the time. His father Jan Rubens, a lawyer and alderman, was involved in politics and other social affairs while his mother Maria Pypelinckx was an heiress and writer from the Southern...
At age 13, Peter Paul and his 16-year-old brother Philip were obligated to find more lucrative work to support their family after the death of their father and the costly marriage of their sister Blandina. In 1591, at age 14, Rubens was apprenticed to Tobias Verhaeght, a distant relative and uninspired landscape painter of little renown, in Antwerp...
Rubens also recommended worthy purchases of art to the Duke and performed diplomatic missions until he returned to Italy in 1604. He and his brother Philip rented an apartment with a studio, hired servants, and enjoyed entertaining their friends with whom they discussed their work. On a second visit to Rome, Rubens studied the ancient Greek and Rom...
Rubens last decade was spent freely pursuing the most interesting commissions and his own artistic inspirations in and around Antwerp. In 1630, at the age of 53 years, he married his first wife Isabella's niece, the beautiful 16-year-old Helene Fourment, whom he also used as his model in many of his paintings. During these final ten years, Helene b...
His profound stylistic influence would span over three centuries from van Dyck to the Impressionist Renoir. In Italy, he influenced Baroque painters Pietro da Cortona and Luca Giordano. In Spain, he befriended and influenced Velazquez and in England, Thomas Gainsborough and Sir Joshua Reynolds. The 19th century French Romantic painter Eugene Delacr...
- Flemish
- May 30, 1640
- Siegen, Westphalia
Oct 11, 2024 · For these 20 separate hangings, which form his most elaborate and complex program of religious art, Rubens invented a two-tiered architectural framework featuring tapestries-within-tapestries, an unprecedented display of Baroque illusionism.
- Charles Scribner
Sep 30, 2024 · His work, known for its dynamic compositions, vibrant colors, and expressive figures, epitomizes the Baroque movement that emerged in the 17th century. Rubens was not only a prolific painter but also a diplomat and humanist scholar, bridging the worlds of art and politics.
Oct 4, 2021 · This paper aims to fill this scholarly lacuna by focusing on the case of the Flemish painter Peter Paul Rubens (1577–1640), one of the most eminent artists of his generation to fully exploit the new technologies of transportation on a pan-European scale.
- Mattia Biffis
- 2021
Rubens' highly charged compositions reference erudite aspects of classical and Christian history. His unique and immensely popular Baroque style emphasized movement, color, and sensuality, which followed the immediate, dramatic artistic style promoted in the Counter-Reformation.
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Rubens' highly charged compositions reference erudite aspects of classical and Christian history. His unique and immensely popular Baroque style emphasised movement, colour, and sensuality, which followed the immediate, dramatic artistic style promoted in the Counter-Reformation.
