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Peter Paul Rubens Rovet of Leucippus daughter mk198
1615-16
Alto Pinakothek,Munchen
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Peter Paul Rubens Saturn Devouring his son mk214
1636
Oil on canvas
180x87cm
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Peter Paul Rubens Kings College Chapel mk216
The Adoration of the King
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Peter Paul Rubens Rainbow Landscape mk216
In the landscapes Rubens painted at Steen
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Peter Paul Rubens Christ at the House of Martha and mary mk216
The baroque style of the early 17th century introducced flamboyance and worldliness into painting.
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Peter Paul Rubens Venus Frigida 1614
Oil on wood,
142 x 184 cm
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Peter Paul Rubens Portrait of Jan Gaspar Gevartius c. 1628
Panel,
119 x 98 cm
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Peter Paul Rubens Our Lady with the Saints 1634
Oil on canvas
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Peter Paul Rubens St Francis of Assisi Receiving the Stigmata c. 1635
Oil on canvas,
264 x 192 cm
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Peter Paul Rubens Four Studies of the Head of a Negro Oil on canvas
transferred from wood,
51 x 66 cm
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Peter Paul Rubens Allegory on the Blessings of Peace 1629-30
Oil on canvas,
203.5 x 298 cm
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Peter Paul Rubens Portrait of a Chambermaid c. 1625
Oil on panel, 63,5 x 47,5 cm
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Peter Paul Rubens Christ and Saint John with Angels nn09
Oil on canvas
95x122cm
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Peter Paul Rubens The Prophet Elijah Receiving Bread and Water from an Angel nn09
c.1625-28
Oil on wood
65x55cm
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Peter Paul Rubens The Triumphal Car of Kallo 1638
Oil on panel,
103 x 71 cm
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Peter Paul Rubens Christ at Simon the Pharisee 1618-20 Oil on canvas
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Peter Paul Rubens Cimon and Pero 1625 Oil on canvas, 155 x 186 cm
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Peter Paul Rubens The Adoration of the kings mk223
Oil on canvas
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Peter Paul Rubens Lida and Swan mk225
1598-1600
64.5x80.5cm
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Peter Paul Rubens Helen and her children mk225
1636
113x82cm
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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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