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2. Assumption of the Virgin (Rubens, Antwerp) - Wikipedia

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   The women in the painting are thought to be Mary Magdalene and the Virgin Mary's two sisters. A kneeling woman holds a flower, referring to the lilies that miraculously filled the empty coffin. The Antwerp Cathedral of Our Lady opened a competition for an Assumption altar in 1611. Rubens submitted models to the clergy on 16 February 1611.

3. Leda and the Swan (Rubens) - Wikipedia

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   Michelangelo typically depicted women in a masculine way. Muscles are more clearly defined and the bodies look hard. The body is thinner. The hair is neatly styled. Michelangelo's body proportions are a little skewed. Rubens's women, on the other hand, are extremely curvaceous and are much softer. The hair is somewhat loose and not as styled.

4. The Elevation of the Cross (Rubens) - Wikipedia

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   While Rubens' triptych was present in St. Walburga, the painting was surrounded on all sides by images of God the Father, Christ, angels, and at the top of the structure was a gilded wooden pelican, which was a common representation of Christ's redemptive sacrifice, based on the ancient legend that the pelican hacked his brood to death in a ...

5. Openclipart - Wikipedia

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   Openclipart, also called Open Clip Art Library, is an online media repository of free-content vector clip art.The project hosts over 160,000 free graphics and has billed itself as "the largest community of artists making the best free original clipart for you to use for absolutely any reason".

6. Peter Paul Rubens - Wikipedia

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   Rubens was quite fond of painting full-figured women, giving rise to terms like 'Rubensian' or 'Rubenesque' (sometimes 'Rubensesque'). His large-scale cycle representing Marie de' Medici focuses on several classic female archetypes like the virgin, consort, wife, widow, and diplomatic regent. [ 46 ]

7. Annunciation (Rubens) - Wikipedia

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   The Annunciation (1609) by Rubens The Annunciation (1610–1628) by Rubens. The Annunciation is the title of two paintings by Peter Paul Rubens.The first was commissioned by the Jesuit college in Antwerp and painted in 1609.

8. Two Women with a Candle - Wikipedia

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   Two Women with a Candle or Old Woman and Young Woman with a Candle is a 1616-1617 painting by Peter Paul Rubens, now in the Mauritshuis, The Hague, Netherlands. Its chiaroscuro shows strong influence from Caravaggio , whose work Rubens had seen during a stay in Rome.

9. Madonna of the Basket (Rubens) - Wikipedia

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   The oldest mentions of the work are recorded to the Villa del Poggio Imperiale in 1654–1655, then from 1697, at the Palazzo Pitti in the "Parrot Room." The work was registered in various other rooms until, in 1799, French inspectors sent the work to Paris, where it was stored at the Dijon Museum of Fine Arts.