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Peter Paul Rubens
The Little Fur
Art History Museum, Vienna
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Peter Paul Rubens
Rubens with his Wife, Helene Fourmont and Their Son, Peter Paul
1635
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
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Peter Paul Rubens
Landscape with a Rainbow
1630's
The Hermitage, St.Petersburg
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Peter Paul Rubens
Christ and St.John with Angels
Wilton House, Wiltshire
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Peter Paul Rubens
Angelica and the Hermit
1630's
Art History Museum, Vienna
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Peter Paul Rubens
The Triumph of Truth
Musee du Louvre, Paris
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Peter Paul Rubens
The Education of Marie de Medici
1622-24
Musee du Louvre, Paris
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Peter Paul Rubens
The Council of the Gods
1622-24
Musee du Louvre, Paris
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Peter Paul Rubens
The Coronation of Marie de Medici
1622-24
Musee du Louvre, Paris
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Peter Paul Rubens
The Coronation of Marie de Medici
The Hermitage, St.Petersburg
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Peter Paul Rubens
The Apotheosis of Henry IV and the Proclamation of the Regency of Marie de Medici on the 14th of May
1622-24
Musee du Louvre, Paris
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Peter Paul Rubens
Portrait of Marie de Medici
1622
Museo del Prado, Madrid
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Peter Paul Rubens
The Raising of the Cross
1620-21
Musee du Louvre, Paris
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Peter Paul Rubens
Perseus Liberating Andromeda
1620's
The Hermitage, St.Petersburg
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Peter Paul Rubens
The Rape of the Daughters of Leucippus
1618
Alte Pinakothek, Munich
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Peter Paul Rubens
Christ and Mary Magdalene
1618 A
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Peter Paul Rubens
The Union of Earth and Water
1618
The Hermitage, St.Petersburg
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Peter Paul Rubens
Venus at a Mirror
1615
Sammlung Furst von Liechenstein, Vaduz
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Peter Paul Rubens
Statue of Ceres
1615
The Hermitage, St.Petersburg
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Peter Paul Rubens
Marchesa Brigida Spinola Doria
1606
The National Gallery of Art, Washington DC
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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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