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Peter Paul Rubens. Sir Peter Paul Rubens ( / ˈruːbənz / ROO-bənz, [1] Dutch: [ˈrybə (n)s]; 28 June 1577 – 30 May 1640) was a Flemish artist and diplomat. [2] He is considered the most influential artist of the Flemish Baroque tradition. Rubens's highly charged compositions reference erudite aspects of classical and Christian history.
Jun 24, 2024 · Peter Paul Rubens (born June 28, 1577, Siegen, Nassau, Westphalia [Germany]—died May 30, 1640, Antwerp, Spanish Netherlands [now in Belgium]) was a Flemish painter who was the greatest exponent of Baroque painting’s dynamism, vitality, and sensuous exuberance. Though his masterpieces include portraits and landscapes, Rubens is perhaps best ...
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Dec 18, 2014 · Rubens is a painter’s painter. This is the first exhibition to focus on Rubens’s impact on the course of art history. The exhibition’s co-curator, Nico Van Hout, explains that without Rubens, there would be “no Rococo, no Romanticism, no Orientalism. Perhaps even no Impressionism.”.
- Early years and Italy. Rubens was a remarkable individual. Not only was he an enormously successful painter whose workshop produced a staggering number of works; but he also played an important diplomatic role in 17th-century European politics.
- Antwerp. In 1608 news came that Rubens's mother was dying. He left immediately for Antwerp, but by the time he arrived she had died. Once home, Rubens decided to stay in the city.
- The diplomat. In 1622 Rubens was commissioned to carry out a huge project in Paris for the notoriously difficult Maria de Medici, widow of King Henry IV of France.
- Court artist. From the mid-1620s Rubens become increasingly busy with diplomatic duties. Antwerp, in the southern Netherlands, was part of an empire ruled by Catholic Spain.
Apr 10, 2015 · Rubens, best known for his fleshy nude women, also embraced a broad array of subjects, from religious and mythological scenes to landscapes and portraits. We look at each of these areas through the lens of six themes; power, lust, compassion, elegance, poetry and violence.
Biography. Sir Peter Paul Rubens ( ROO-bənz, Dutch: [ˈrybə (n)s]; 28 June 1577 – 30 May 1640) was a Flemish artist and diplomat. He is considered the most influential artist of the Flemish Baroque tradition. Rubens's highly charged compositions reference erudite aspects of classical and Christian history.
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Jun 1, 2015 · The solution that the organisers of the recent exhibition at the Royal Academy, London (closed 10 April), and the authors of the catalogue have reached is to divide Rubens’s output into six ...
