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Oct 11, 2024 · In August 1601 Rubens arrived in Rome. There the new Baroque style heralded by Annibale Carracci and Caravaggio—a bold naturalism coupled with a revival of the heroically idealized forms of Michelangelo and Raphael—was quickly assimilated by Rubens.
- Charles Scribner
Rubens came in Rome also under the spell of the recent, highly naturalistic paintings by Caravaggio. He later made a copy of Caravaggio's Entombment of Christ and recommended his patron, the Duke of Mantua, to buy The Death of the Virgin ( Louvre ). [ 20 ]
Jan 10, 2024 · Highlights include Rubens’s red-chalk study of Spinario, the renowned Hellenistic bronze of a boy pulling a thorn from the sole of his foot: the drawing is so realistic that some scholars believe Rubens must have used a live model instead.
During the seventeenth century Pieter Paul Rubens was considered by his contemporaries, including the French scholar Claude Fabri de Peiresc and some other leading thinkers of the République de Lettres, to be one of the greatest connoisseurs of Roman antiquities.
Rubens painted The Fall of Phaeton in Rome. His study of works by Leonardo da Vinci, Raphael, and Michelangelo influenced his evocation of complex poses and a powerful sense movement. The lighting reveals the artist’s attention to Venetian artists as well. Rubens continued to work on the painting over a number of years.
May 18, 2018 · In Rome, Rubens completed his education as an artist, studying with unfailing enthusiasm the sculptures of antiquity and the paintings of the High Renaissance, especially those of Raphael and Michelangelo.
During two periods spent in Rome (1601–2 and 1606–8), he gained access to important private collections of antiquities, thanks to negotiations by his elder brother, Philip, who arrived in Rome to study law in 1601. This immersive experience had a profound impact on Rubens’s art.
