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Peter Paul Rubens Landscape with a Rainbow mk60
Oil on canvas
transferred from panel
34x51"
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Peter Paul Rubens The Stone Carters mk60
ca.1620
Oil on canvas
tranferred from panel
34x50"
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Peter Paul Rubens The Garden of Love mk61
c.1630
Detail
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Peter Paul Rubens Helene Fourment and her Eldest Son Frans c 1635
Oil on wood 146 x 102 cm
Munich Alte Pinakothek Bayrische Staats-Gemaldesammlungen (mk64)
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Peter Paul Rubens The Death of Seneca mk61
c.1615
Oil on panel
184x155cm
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Peter Paul Rubens The Adoration of the Magi 1608 and 1628-1629 mk61
Oil on canvas
346x438cm
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Peter Paul Rubens A Peasant Dance mk61
Oil on panel
73x106cm
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Peter Paul Rubens The Three Graces mk61
c.1636-1638
Oil on canvas
221x181cm
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Peter Paul Rubens Return of the Peasants from the Fields mk65
Oil on panel
47 5/8x76 3/8in
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Peter Paul Rubens Ulysses on the Island of the Phaeacians mk65
Oil on panel
50 3/8x81 1/2in
Pitti,Palatine Gallery
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Peter Paul Rubens The Triumphal Entrance of Henry IV into Paris mk65
Oil on canvas
149 5/8x272 4/16in
Uffizi,Gallery
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Peter Paul Rubens The Three Graces mk65
Oil on canvas
18 11/16x13 3/4in
Pitti,Palatne Gallery
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Peter Paul Rubens Holy Family with St.Elizabeth mk65
Oil on canvas
44 7/8x34 5/8in
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Peter Paul Rubens The Temle of Janus mk65
ca.1635
Oil on panel
27 1/2x 26"
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Peter Paul Rubens The Temle of Janus mk65
ca.1635
Oil on panel
27 1/2x 26"
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Peter Paul Rubens Statue of Ceres mk65
ca.1615
Oil on panel
35 1/2x26"
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Peter Paul Rubens A Roman Woman's Love for Her Father mk65
ca.1612
Oil on canvas
transferred from panel
55x71"
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Peter Paul Rubens The Stone Carters mk65
ca.1620
Oil on canvas
tranferred from panel
34x50"
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Peter Paul Rubens The Coronation of Marie de' Medici mk65
Oil on panel
19x25"
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Peter Paul Rubens Maid of Honor to the Infanta Isabella, mk65
Oil on panel
25x19"
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Peter Paul Rubens
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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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