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Series - 24 artworks. Peter Paul Rubens lived in the XVI – XVII cent., a remarkable figure of Flemish Baroque. Find more works of this artist at Wikiart.org – best visual art database.
- Flemish
- May 30, 1640
- Siegen, Germany
Peter Paul Rubens (Siegen, Sacro Imperio Romano Germánico, actual Alemania, 28 de junio de 1577-Amberes, Flandes (Países Bajos Españoles), actual Bélgica, 30 de mayo de 1640), también conocido como Pieter Paul, Pieter Pauwel, Petrus Paulus, y, en español, Pedro Pablo Rubens, fue un pintor barroco de la escuela flamenca.
- Flemish
- Siegen, Germany
- Early Years and Italy
- Antwerp
- The Diplomat
- Court Artist
- Last Years
Rubens was a remarkable individual. Not only was he an enormously successful painter whose workshop produced a staggering number of works; but he also played an important diplomatic role in 17th-century European politics. He was clearly a charming and attractive companion, described as having 'a tall stature, a stately bearing, with a regularly sha...
In 1608 news came that Rubens's mother was dying. He left immediately for Antwerp, but by the time he arrived she had died. Once home, Rubens decided to stay in the city. His reputation had preceded him, and in 1609 at the age of 33 he was appointed court painter to the rulers of the Netherlands, the Archduke Albert and his wife Isabella.The follow...
In 1622 Rubens was commissioned to carry out a huge project in Paris for the notoriously difficult Maria de Medici, widow of King Henry IV of France. Two entire galleries were to be decorated with scenes from the lives of the queen and her late husband. The commission was a fraught one. Maria was awkward and changeable; and her favourite, Cardinal ...
From the mid-1620s Rubens become increasingly busy with diplomatic duties. Antwerp, in the southern Netherlands, was part of an empire ruled by Catholic Spain. The Protestant northern Netherlands were united under Dutch rule. Both sides hoped to unite the Netherlands under their own regime. In 1610, a 12 year truce between the Dutch and the Spanish...
After 18 months abroad, Rubens had had enough of the thankless task of politicking. He returned to Antwerp to see his children and to look after his domestic affairs. He could also dedicate himself entirely to painting. One of his most important patrons in the 1630s was King Philip IV of Spain who commissioned over 80 paintings. In 1630, at the age...
His unique and immensely popular Baroque style emphasized movement, colour, and sensuality, which followed the immediate, dramatic artistic style promoted in the Counter-Reformation. Rubens was a painter producing altarpieces, portraits, landscapes, and history paintings of mythological and allegorical subjects.
Hace 5 días · Peter Paul Rubens is famous for his inventive and dynamic paintings of religious and mythological subjects, though he also painted portraits and landscapes. He is regarded as one of the greatest painters of the 17th-century Baroque period.
- Charles Scribner
Rubens, Peter Paul. Siegen, Westphalia (Germany), 1577 - Antwerp (Belgium), 1640. No other 17th-century European painter combined artistic talent, social and economic success and a high cultural level like Rubens. Though primarily a painter, he also made numerous designs for prints, tapestries, architecture, sculpture and decorative objects.
The Three Graces. 1630 - 1635. Oil on oak panel. Room 029. The Graces were minor deities but in this splendid work Peter Paul Rubens devotes his best effort to them. The three goddesses embrace each other forming a circle. The positioning of their feet suggests movement; they seem to dance gently.
