|
|
|
|
|
|
Peter Paul Rubens
Perseus Freeing Andromeda
1638(1638)
Medium Oil on canvas
cyf
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Peter Paul Rubens
Abraham Ortelius
oil on wood
Date 1633(1633)
Medium oil on wood
cjr
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Peter Paul Rubens
Amazonenschlacht
c. 1619
Medium oil on wood
Dimensions 121 x 165 cm (47.6 x 65 in)
cjr
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Peter Paul Rubens
Bacchus
between 1638(1638) and 1640(1640)
Medium Oil on canvas
cyf
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Peter Paul Rubens
Self-portrait with a Hat
between 1623(1623) and 1625(1625)
Medium oil on wood
cyf
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Peter Paul Rubens
St Augustine
between 1636(1636) and 1638(1638)
Medium oil on canvas
Dimensions 263 x 175 cm (103.5 x 68.9 in)
cyf
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Peter Paul Rubens
Kreuztragung Christi
1st half of 17th century
Medium oil on canvas
cjr
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Peter Paul Rubens
Portrat der Maria de Medici, Konigin von Frankreich
1622-1625
Medium oil on canvas
Dimensions Deutsch: 130 x 112 cm
cjr
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Peter Paul Rubens
Mucius Scavola vor Porsenna
1st half of 17th century
Medium oil on canvas
Dimensions Deutsch: 45 x 31 cm
cjr
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Peter Paul Rubens
The Hermit and the Sleeping Angelica
between 1626(1626) and 1628(1628)
Medium oil on oak panel
cyf
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Peter Paul Rubens
Boreas entfuhrt Oreithya
c. 1620(1620)
Medium oil on panel
Dimensions 146 x 140 cm (57.5 x 55.1 in)
cjr
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Peter Paul Rubens
Self-portrait.
1623
Medium oil on canvas
Dimensions 91.3 x 70.8 cm (35.9 x 27.9 in)
cjr
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Peter Paul Rubens
Portrait of prince Wladyslaw Vasa in Polish costume
c. 1626(1626)
Medium oil on canvas
cjr
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Peter Paul Rubens
Portrait of a man as the god Mars
1620-1625
Medium oil on canvas
Dimensions 82.6 x 66 cm (32.5 x 26 in)
cyf
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Peter Paul Rubens
Sieg und Tod des Konsuls Decius Mus in der Schlacht
1617(1617)
Medium oil on canvas
Dimensions Deutsch: 288 x 519 cm
cjr
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Peter Paul Rubens
The Wedding of Peleus and Thetis
1636(1636)
Medium oil on canvas
Dimensions 10.5/8 x 16.6/8 in
cyf
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Peter Paul Rubens
Equestrian portrait of king Sigismund III Vasa
c. 1624(1624)
Medium oil on canvas
Dimensions 184 x 266 cm (72.4 x 104.7 in)
cjr
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Peter Paul Rubens
Anbetung der Hirten
1618 - oil on wood - 29 x 23 cm
Date c. 1618
cyf
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Peter Paul Rubens
Triumph of the Duke of Buckingham
1857(1857)
Medium oil on canvas
Dimensions 84.7 x 103.8 cm (33.3 x 40.9 in)
cjr
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Peter Paul Rubens
Jagd der Atalante
c. 1620
Medium oil on canvas
cjr
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
| 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.
|
