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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Peter Paul Rubens The Little Fur oil painting


The Little Fur
Art History Museum, Vienna
Painting ID::  3662
Peter Paul Rubens
The Little Fur
Art History Museum, Vienna
   
   
     

Peter Paul Rubens Rubens with his Wife, Helene Fourmont and Their Son, Peter Paul oil painting


Rubens with his Wife, Helene Fourmont and Their Son, Peter Paul
1635 Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Painting ID::  3663
Peter Paul Rubens
Rubens with his Wife, Helene Fourmont and Their Son, Peter Paul
1635 Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
   
   
     

Peter Paul Rubens Landscape with a Rainbow oil painting


Landscape with a Rainbow
1630's The Hermitage, St.Petersburg
Painting ID::  3664
Peter Paul Rubens
Landscape with a Rainbow
1630's The Hermitage, St.Petersburg
   
   
     

Peter Paul Rubens Christ and St.John with Angels oil painting


Christ and St.John with Angels
Wilton House, Wiltshire
Painting ID::  3665
Peter Paul Rubens
Christ and St.John with Angels
Wilton House, Wiltshire
   
   
     

Peter Paul Rubens Angelica and the Hermit oil painting


Angelica and the Hermit
1630's Art History Museum, Vienna
Painting ID::  3666
Peter Paul Rubens
Angelica and the Hermit
1630's Art History Museum, Vienna
   
   
     

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     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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