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Sir Peter Paul Rubens (/ ˈ r uː b ən z / ROO-bənz; [1] Dutch: [ˈpeːtər pʌul ˈrybəns]; 28 June 1577 – 30 May 1640) was a Flemish artist and diplomat. [2] He is considered the most influential artist of the Flemish Baroque tradition. Rubens' highly charged compositions reference erudite aspects of classical and Christian history.
Prometheus Bound is an oil painting by Peter Paul Rubens, a Flemish Baroque artist from Antwerp. [1] Influenced by the Greek play, Prometheus: The Friend of Man, Peter Paul Rubens completed this painting in his studio with collaboration from Frans Snyders, who rendered the eagle.
The painting depicts the story from Ovid's Metamorphoses of the weaving contest between the god Athena and the mortal Arachne.In the original myth, Athena challenges Arachne and loses, but Athena punishes Arachne anyway for insulting the gods by not recognizing the divine source of Athena's artistic skill and for creating a more beautiful work than her own.
The famed New York museum thought the painting wasn't the work of Rubens—now Christie’s London is about to sell it for an estimated $4 million to $6.8 million
The Saint Stephen Triptych is a 1616–1617 oil on panel painting by Peter Paul Rubens, produced as the high altarpiece for Saint-Amand Abbey, a Benedictine house near Valenciennes. It was seized during the French Revolution and is now in the Musée des Beaux Arts de Valenciennes .
The Union of Earth and Water is a Baroque painting by Flemish artist Peter Paul Rubens, showing Cybele as the personification of earth holding the horn of plenty and Neptune as the personification of water in the center. [1] The pair is crowned by the goddess Victoria and the union is heralded through a conch by the Triton below. [1]
Rubens’s Venus and Adonis was most likely painted as decoration for a large country house. The first records of the painting’s history were from the collection of the Elector of Bavaria, where it was held until 1706.It was then taken by Joseph I, Holy Roman Emperor who then presented it to John Churchill at Blenheim Palace until it was sold by the 8th Duke of Marlborough [3] In 1937, it ...
The Garden of Eden with the Fall of Man or The Earthly Paradise with the Fall of Adam and Eve (ca. 1615) is a painting by Peter Paul Rubens (figures) and Jan Brueghel the Elder (flora and fauna). It is housed in the Mauritshuis art museum in The Hague, Netherlands.
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