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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 ]
Leda and the Swan is an oil painting by Peter Paul Rubens, who painted two versions of this subject. The first was completed in 1601 and the second in 1602. Rubens was heavily influenced by Michelangelo, [1] and both paintings are variations on Michelangelo's famous lost painting, which is known from copies and prints. [2]
The figures in the painting are depicted with exaggerated expressions of grief and sadness, emphasizing the emotional impact of Christ's death. The painting invites the viewer to reflect on the importance of Christ's sacrifice and to deepen their emotional devotion to him. The image serves to remind the faithful of Christ's divine nature. [4]
The Assumption of the Virgin Mary or Assumption of the Holy Virgin, is a painting by Peter Paul Rubens, completed in 1626 as an altarpiece for the high altar of the Cathedral of Our Lady, Antwerp, where it remains. In Rubens' depiction of the Assumption of Mary, a choir of angels lifts her in a spiraling motion toward a burst of divine light.
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.
St Sebastian is a painting of c. 1614 by Peter Paul Rubens, showing the Christian Saint Sebastian.It dates to the early years of Rubens' stay in Rome - its sinuous line and defined figures are thought to be the result of his studies of Michelangelo and of Flemish Mannerism.
The Rainbow Landscape (1640) by Rubens. The Rainbow Landscape is a 1640 oil-on-panel painting by Peter Paul Rubens, now in the Alte Pinakothek in Munich. [1] One of the painter's last works and the third of three autograph works on the same subject, it mixes Italian and Flemish influences in a style reminiscent of Rubens' friend Jan Bruegel the Elder but with figures drawing on nymphs from the ...
The side paintings are therefore turned toward the central panel with the venerated Madonna della Vallicella. Their placement directs the devotional gazes of Pope Gregory and Saint Domitilla toward the altar. [2] The paintings of the Chiesa Nuova are the only works Rubens made in Rome that remained in the original locations.