Peter Paul Rubens [4]

Nationality : Netherlands, 1577 - 1640

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  • Title : Portrait of Jan Gaspar Gevartius
  • Info : c.1628 Oil on panel 46 3/4 x 38 1/2 inches (119 x 98 cm) Koninklijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten, Antwerp, Belgium

Oil Painting ID: 29142


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  • Title : Self,Portrait
  • Info : 1628 - 1630 Oil on canvas Rubens House, Antwerp, Belgium

Oil Painting ID: 29143


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  • Title : Christ on the Cross
  • Info : 1627 Oil on panel 20 x 14 7/8 inches (51 x 38 cm) Rockox House, Antwerp, Belgium

Oil Painting ID: 29144


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  • Title : Adoration of the Magi
  • Info : 1626 - 1629 Oil on panel 111 3/8 x 86 1/8 inches (283 x 219 cm) Musée du Louvre, Paris, France

Oil Painting ID: 29145


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  • Title : Assumption of the Virgin
  • Info : 1626 Oil on panel 192 7/8 x 127 7/8 inches (490 x 325 cm) O.L. Vrouwekathedraal, Antwerp, Belgium

Oil Painting ID: 29146


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  • Title : Portrait of a Chambermaid
  • Info : c.1625 Chalk on paper 13 3/4 x 11 1/8 inches (35 x 28.3 cm) Graphische Sammlung Albertina, Vienna, AustriaGraphische Sammlung Albertina, Vienna, Austria

Oil Painting ID: 29147


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  • Title : Stormy Landscape
  • Info : c.1625 Oil on wood 57 3/4 x 82 1/4 inches (147 x 209 cm) Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna, Austria

Oil Painting ID: 29148


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  • Title : The Duke of Buckingham
  • Info : c.1625 Oil on canvas 24 3/4 x 18 7/8 inches (63 x 48 cm) Galleria Palatina (Palazzo Pitti), Florence, Italy

Oil Painting ID: 29149


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  • Title : The Straw Hat
  • Info : c.1625 Oil on wood 31 x 21 5/8 inches (79 x 55 cm) National Gallery, London, England

Oil Painting ID: 29150


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  • Title : St Roch Altarpiece
  • Info : 1623 - 1626 Oil on canvas St Maartenskerk, Aalst, Netherlands

Oil Painting ID: 29151


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Rubens, Peter Paul
Peter Paul Rubens is considered one of the most important Flemish painters of the 17th century. His style became an international definition of the animated, exuberantly sensuous aspects of baroque painting. Combining the bold brushwork, luminous color, and shimmering light of the Venetian school with the fervent vigor of Michelangelo's art and the formal dynamism of Hellenistic sculpture, Rubens created a vibrant art, its pulsating energies emanating from tensions between the intellectual and emotional, the classical and the romantic. For 200 years the vitality and eloquence of his work influenced such artists as Antoine Watteau, in the early 18th century, and Eug讥 Delacroix and Pierre Auguste Renoir, in the 19th century. Rubens's father, Jan Rubens, was a prominent lawyer and Antwerp alderman. Having converted from Catholicism to Calvinism, Jan Rubens in 1568 fled Flanders with his family because of persecutions against Protestants. In 1577 Peter Paul was born in exile at Siegen, Westphalia (now in Germany), also the birthplace of his brother Philip and his sister Baldina. There, their father had become the adviser and lover of Princess Anna of Saxony, wife of Prince William I of Orange (William the Silent). On the death of Jan Rubens in 1587, his widow returned the family to Antwerp, where they again became Catholics. After studying the classics in a Latin school and serving as a court page, Peter Paul decided to become a painter. He apprenticed in turn with Tobias Verhaecht, Adam van Noort, and Otto van Veen, called Vaenius, three minor Flemish painters influenced by 16th-century Mannerist artists of the Florentine-Roman school. The young Rubens was as precocious a painter as he had earlier been a scholar of modern European languages and of classical antiquity. In 1598, at the age of 21, he was accorded the rank of master painter of the Antwerp Guild of St. Luke.

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