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Peter Paul Rubens

Peter Paul Rubens. By Jordan LaPorta. Overview. Lived June 28, 1577-May 30 1640 (Baroque Period) Flemish painter and diplomat Staunch Roman Catholic (Counter-Reformation Era) Elaborate paintings with religious, mythological, historical, and sensuous themes Also a portrait painter.

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Peter Paul Rubens

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  1. Peter Paul Rubens By Jordan LaPorta

  2. Overview • Lived June 28, 1577-May 30 1640 (Baroque Period) • Flemish painter and diplomat • Staunch Roman Catholic (Counter-Reformation Era) • Elaborate paintings with religious, mythological, historical, and sensuous themes • Also a portrait painter

  3. Early Life • Born in Siegen, Germany to Calvinist Father • After his father was imprisoned for having an affair with the second wife of William of Orange, He and his mother fled to Antwerp • Raised a Roman Catholic • Humanist education • Greek and Latin classic literature • Studied Antwerp’s best artists • Tobias Varhoeght, Adam Van Noort, Otto Van Veen • Traveled to Italy (Venice) in 1600 to study the works of Verose, Titian, Tintoretto, Raphael, and Michelangelo • Absorbed Italian Humanism and Classicism and returned to Antwerp to transform Northern European art

  4. Biography • Called back to Rome and commissioned to paint altarpieces for recently Christened Catholic Churches • Church of Santa Croce, Santa Maria in Vallicella (Madonna adored by the angels) • Married Isabella Brant in 1609 • “Rubens and Isabella Brant in the Honeysuckle Bower” • Court painter in the Spanish Netherlands (Belgium) • Altarpieces for local Churches • Marie de’ Medici Cycle • 1621-1630 • “The Assumption of the Virgin Mary” • 1625-1626 • One of his most prominent works

  5. Biography • Had many assistant but his most prominent protégé was Anthony Van Dyck • “Allegory of Peace and War” • 1629 • For Charles I of England • Charles Knighted Rubens • History of Constantine the Great • Rubens’s sketches inspired the tapestries • Life of Constantine • Triumph of the Eucharist • Ca. 1626-1633 • Last work: 39 ceiling frescoes for a Jesuit Church in Antwerp • Completed shortly before death, burned down in 1718

  6. Style • As a devout Roman Catholic he did many Bible scenes • Mythological works inspired by his secular education • Used shadow, contrasting, and vivid colors • Figures portrayed have a fleshy and built appearance • Terms Rubenesque figures • Style influenced most other artists throughout the Baroque period

  7. Assumption of the Virgin • 1626 • High altarpiece for Cathedral in Antwerp • Choir of Angels carries Mary into Heaven • The 12 Apostles mourn her death • Two women are believed to be Mary Magdalene and Mary’s two sisters

  8. Marie de’ Medici Cycle • Series of 21 paintings commissioned by Marie de’ Medici (wife of Henry IV of France) for the Luxembourg Palace • Depict Marie’s own life struggles and triumphs • Often include mythological figures

  9. The Judgment of Paris • Based off the story from Greek mythology that led up to the Trojan War and in later versions, the foundation of Rome • Ca. 1636

  10. Elevation of the Cross & Descent From The Cross • Both Triptychs housed in the Cathedral at Antwerp • Elevation of the Cross is a much brighter painting, while the descent is covered in shadow with the exception of the area surrounding Christ • Completed by Rubens shortly after his return from Rome and showed many Italian influences

  11. The Hippopotamus Hunt • Typical Rubens painting full of energy and lust also includes many colors and contrast • Ca. 1616

  12. The Massacre of the Innocents • The painting is based off of the story from the Gospel of Matthew • Originally part of the Vienna Art Collection upon Completion in 1612 • Obvious evidence of chiaroscuro

  13. The Rape of the Daughters of Leucippus • Tells the story of how two brothers, Castor and Pollux, kidnap and forcibly marry the two daughters of King Leucippus • The story recounted by Theocritus and Ovid • Ca. 1615-1618

  14. Equestrian Portrait of the Duke of Lerma • Painted during Rubens’s first trip to Spain in 1603 • Chiaroscuro technique evident in contrast of light and dark • Depicts Don Francisco Gomez de Sandoval y Rojas, the favorite of King Phillip III

  15. St. George and the Dragon • Classic story of St. George slaying the Dragon • Unique depiction in the way that the dragon is at the very bottom of the image • Action in progress • Chiaroscuro • Maiden in the background watching in admiration

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