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The copy of Pallas and Arachne was then painted into the background of the scene in Las Meninas, which would go on to be one of the most recognized and analyzed canvases in the history of western art. [5] [6] [7] A copy by Rubens of Velázquez's favorite work, Titian's The Rape of Europa, was owned by The Royal Collection of Philip IV.
Pages in category "Mythological paintings by Peter Paul Rubens" The following 46 pages are in this category, out of 46 total. ... Pallas and Arachne; Perseus and ...
Minerva protecting Peace from Mars or Peace and War is a painting by Peter Paul Rubens. He produced it in London between 1629 and 1630, during a diplomatic mission from the Spanish Netherlands to Charles I of England. It is now in the National Gallery, London. [1]
The Crowning of Saint Catherine (1631) by Peter Paul Rubens The Crowning of Saint Catherine is an oil-on-canvas painting by Peter Paul Rubens , now in the Toledo Museum of Art . It portrays Catherine of Alexandria , an early-4th-century martyr, being crowned by the infant Jesus, sitting on his mother's lap.
Another work on the same theme and with the same title, painted on canvas by Rubens between 1636 and 1638, is in the collection of the Prado Museum, Madrid. [1] Both paintings depict a scene from a Greek myth narrated in Ovid's Metamorphoses (I, 583 ; IX, 687). In the story the god Zeus falls in love with Io, a priestess of his wife Hera. When ...
He was persuaded that it was indeed a Rubens by its similar characteristics and style to the Samson and Delilah painted around the same time. The work was sold at auction at Sotheby's, London on July 10, 2002, for £49.5 million ( C$ 117 million) [ 6 ] [ 7 ] to Canadian businessman and art collector Kenneth Thomson, 2nd Baron Thomson of Fleet .
The Four Philosophers is an oil painting on panel painted in 1611–12 by Peter Paul Rubens.It is now held in the Galleria Palatina of the Palazzo Pitti in Florence.. The painting is relevant to the philosophical movement of neostoicism, founded by Justus Lipsius, depicted in the painting with three of his students.
The Defeat of Sennacherib (ca. 1612–1614) by Rubens. The Defeat of Sennacherib is an oil-on-panel painting by Peter Paul Rubens, now in the Alte Pinakothek in Munich, produced ca.1612–1614. It shows the defeat of the army of Sennacherib by an angel, as described in 2 Kings:19.