Peter Paul Rubens [1]

Nationality : Netherlands, 1577 - 1640

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  • Title : Garden of Love
  • Info : c.1633 Oil on canvas 77 7/8 x 111 3/8 inches (198 x 283 cm) Museo del Prado, Madrid, Spain

Oil Painting ID: 29112


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  • Title : The Meeting of Abraham and Melchizedek
  • Info : 1625 Oil on wood National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, USA

Oil Painting ID: 29113


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  • Title : The Landing of Marie de' Medici at Marseilles
  • Info : 1623 - 1625 Oil on canvas 155 x 116 1/8 inches (394 x 295 cm) Musée du Louvre, Paris, France

Oil Painting ID: 29114


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  • Title : Massacre of the Innocents
  • Info : 1621 Oil on panel 78 1/4 x 118 7/8 inches (199 x 302 cm) Alte Pinakothek, Munich, Bavaria, Germany

Oil Painting ID: 29115


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  • Title : Fall of the Rebel Angels
  • Info : 1620 Oil on canvas 176 3/8 x 114 1/2 inches (448 x 291 cm) Alte Pinakothek, Munich, Bavaria, Germany

Oil Painting ID: 29116


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  • Title : Battle of the Amazons
  • Info : 1618 Oil on canvas 47 5/8 x 65 1/4 inches (121 x 166 cm) Alte Pinakothek, Munich, Bavaria, Germany

Oil Painting ID: 29117


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  • Title : Drunken Silenus
  • Info : 1618 Oil on panel 83 3/8 x 83 3/4 inches (212 x 213 cm) Alte Pinakothek, Munich, Bavaria, Germany

Oil Painting ID: 29118


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  • Title : Rape of the Daughters of Leucippus
  • Info : c.1618 Oil on panel 88 1/8 x 82 3/4 inches (224 x 210.5 cm) Alte Pinakothek, Munich, Bavaria, Germany

Oil Painting ID: 29119


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  • Title : The Union of Earth and Water
  • Info : c.1618 Oil on canvas 87 1/2 x 71 inches (222.5 x 180.5 cm) Hermitage, St Petersburg, Russia

Oil Painting ID: 29120


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  • Title : The Martyrdom of St. Stephen
  • Info : Oil on canvas Musée des Beaux-Arts, Valenciennes, France

Oil Painting ID: 29121


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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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