RUBENS, Pieter Pauwel Return of the Prodigal Son
new21/RUBENS, Pieter Pauwel-485932.jpg 1618 Oil on canvas, 107 x 155 cm Koninklijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten, Antwerp When Rubens died in 1640, he still possessed his Prodigal Son of 1618. Amongst his many grand altarpieces and dramatic mythological subjects, the creation of this rural scene, intended for his own living room, must have given him a great deal of pleasure. The biblical subject - depicted bottom right - serves merely as a vehicle for the painting of one of his earliest landscapes. , Artist: RUBENS, Pieter Pauwel , Return of the Prodigal Son , 1601-1650 , Flemish , painting , religious
RUBENS, Pieter Pauwel Raising of the Cross
new21/RUBENS, Pieter Pauwel-775862.jpg 1610 Oil on panel, 460 x 340 cm (centre panel), 460 x 150 cm (wings) O.-L. Vrouwekathedraal, Antwerp Rubens painted the triptych for the high altar of Antwerp's church of St Walpurgis, which was demolished in 1817. That explains the inclusion of Amand, Walpurgis and Eligius on the back side of the wings. The triptych marked Rubens' sensational introduction of the Baroque style into Northern art. The diagonal composition is full of dynamism and animated colour. The artist had just returned from Italy, with the memory of Michelangelo, Caravaggio and Venetian painting still fresh in his mind. The Raising of the Cross is the perfect summation of the unruly bravura that marked his first years in Antwerp. In the centre nine executioners strain with all their might to raise the cross from which Christ's pale body hangs. The dramatic action is witnessed from the left by St John, the Virgin Mary and a group of weeping women and children. On the right, a Roman officer watches on horseback while soldiers in the background are crucifying the two thieves. In other words, the subject is spread across all three panels. The outside of the wings shows Saints Amand, Walpurgis, Eligius and Catherine of Alexandria. The painting was confiscated by the French in 1794 and taken to Paris. It was returned to Antwerp in 1815, following the defeat of Napoleon, and installed in the church of Our Lady. During restoration in the 1980s, successive layers of varnish, which had form an even grey veil over the painting, were removed. The burgeoning talent of the confident young Rubens is more clearly visible now in the intense emotion of the figures, the contrasting lighting, the glow of the labouring bodies and the gleam of the armour and costly robes. , Artist: RUBENS, Pieter Pauwel , Raising of the Cross , 1601-1650 , Flemish , painting , religious
RUBENS, Pieter Pauwel Raising of the Cross
new21/RUBENS, Pieter Pauwel-236786.jpg 1610 Oil on panel O.-L. Vrouwekathedraal, Antwerp The picture shows a detail of the left panel of the triptych. , Artist: RUBENS, Pieter Pauwel , Raising of the Cross (detail) , 1601-1650 , Flemish , painting , religious
RUBENS, Pieter Pauwel Raising of the Cross
new21/RUBENS, Pieter Pauwel-766863.jpg 1610 Oil on panel, 460 x 150 cm O.-L. Vrouwekathedraal, Antwerp Rubens painted the triptych for the high altar of Antwerp's church of St Walpurgis, which was demolished in 1817. That explains the inclusion of Amand, Walpurgis and Eligius on the back side of the wings. According to tradition, Bishop Amand founded that church - Antwerp's first - some time around 650. He features on the outside of the wings in the company of Walpurgis, a 8th-century saint, who supposedly lived for several years as a hermitess in the church's crypt, before becoming abbess of the convent she founded in Bavaria. In the right shutter, Rubens placed St Eligius, the blacksmith and bishop. Eligius was the patron saint of Antwerp's blacksmiths, who had their altar at St Walpurgis. Catherine of Alexandria stands in front of him with her martyr's sword and palm branch. The prominent position she is given in the altarpiece no doubt had something to do with a special devotion in the church, perhaps a confraternity of St Catherine, of which, however, no details are known. , Artist: RUBENS, Pieter Pauwel , Raising of the Cross: Sts Amand and Walpurgis , 1601-1650 , Flemish , painting , religious
RUBENS, Pieter Pauwel The Adoration of the Magi
new21/RUBENS, Pieter Pauwel-348654.jpg 1624 Oil on panel Koninklijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten, Antwerp , Artist: RUBENS, Pieter Pauwel , The Adoration of the Magi (detail) , 1601-1650 , Flemish , painting , religious
RUBENS, Pieter Pauwel Descent from the Cross
new21/RUBENS, Pieter Pauwel-489757.jpg 1612-14 Oil on panel, 421 x 153 cm O.-L. Vrouwekathedraal, Antwerp The outsides of the wings are devoted to St Christopher. According to his medieval legend, the huge St Christopher carried the Christ Child across a river on his shoulders. A hermit on the right lights his way with a lantern. , Artist: RUBENS, Pieter Pauwel , Descent from the Cross (outside left) , 1601-1650 , Flemish , painting , religious
RUBENS, Pieter Pauwel Descent from the Cross
new21/RUBENS, Pieter Pauwel-839842.jpg 1612-14 Oil on panel, 421 x 153 cm O.-L. Vrouwekathedraal, Antwerp The right wing of the great triptych of the Descent from the Cross is devoted to the presentation of the Infant Christ in the Temple at Jerusalem. The elderly Simeon holds the Child in his arms while the prophetess Anna, located in the shadows between Simeon and Mary, looks on joyfully. Joseph, who has brought two sacrificial doves with him, kneels down respectfully. The onlooker on the left edge of this splendid temple interior is Nicolaas Rockox, a friend of Rubens and a prominent figure in Antwerp. , Artist: RUBENS, Pieter Pauwel , Descent from the Cross (right wing) , 1601-1650 , Flemish , painting , religious
RUBENS, Pieter Pauwel Descent from the Cross
new21/RUBENS, Pieter Pauwel-852298.jpg 1612-14 Oil on panel, 421 x 153 cm O.-L. Vrouwekathedraal, Antwerp The outsides of the wings are devoted to St Christopher. According to his medieval legend, the huge St Christopher carried the Christ Child across a river on his shoulders. A hermit on the right lights his way with a lantern. , Artist: RUBENS, Pieter Pauwel , Descent from the Cross (outside right) , 1601-1650 , Flemish , painting , religious
RUBENS, Pieter Pauwel Old Woman with a Basket of Coal
new22/RUBENS, Pieter Pauwel-769635.jpg 1618-20 Oil on wood, 115 x 92 cn Gem?ldegalerie, Dresden Artist:RUBENS, Pieter Pauwel Title: Old Woman with a Basket of Coal, 1601-1650, Flemish , painting , genre
RUBENS, Pieter Pauwel Landscape with the Ruins of Mount Palatine in Rome
new22/RUBENS, Pieter Pauwel-598567.jpg 1608 Oil on panel, 76 x 107 cm Mus?e du Louvre, Paris Artist:RUBENS, Pieter Pauwel Title: Landscape with the Ruins of Mount Palatine in Rome, 1601-1650, Flemish , painting , landscape
RUBENS, Pieter Pauwel Portrait of Marchesa Brigida Spinola Doria
new22/RUBENS, Pieter Pauwel-327668.jpg 1606 Oil on canvas National Gallery of Art, Washington The painting was done while Rubens was in Genoa in 1606. It was cut down from a full-length portrait in which the young Marchesa (age 22) appears in the porch of a villa. We know this from a study drawing for the portrait, which is in the Pierpont Morgan Library, New York. Artist:RUBENS, Pieter Pauwel Title: Portrait of Marchesa Brigida Spinola Doria, 1601-1650, Flemish , painting , portrait
RUBENS, Pieter Pauwel The Apotheosis of Henry IV and the Proclamation of the Regency of Marie de Medicis on May
new22/RUBENS, Pieter Pauwel-292547.jpg 1610 1623-25 Oil on canvas Mus?e du Louvre, Paris *** Keywords: ************* Author: RUBENS, Pieter Pauwel Title: The Apotheosis of Henry IV and the Proclamation of the Regency of Marie de Medicis on May 14, 1610, 1601-1650, Flemish , painting , historical
RUBENS, Pieter Pauwel Triumphal Entry of Henry IV into Paris
new22/RUBENS, Pieter Pauwel-268633.jpg 1627-30 Oil on canvas, 380 x 692 cm Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence This canvas belongs to the unfinished cycle dedicated to Henry IV and shows the king, converted and victorious, entering Paris on 22 March 1594 at the end of a long period of internal struggles. Renouncing any reference to time or place, Rubens illustrates the episode in a complex allegorical context, creating an analogy with the triumph of a Roman emperor. In particular, the group of the crowned king and the architecture of the triumphal arch (derived from the Roman prototype of the arch of Titus), surmounted by soldiers and horses, arise from en evident reinterpretation of Mantegna's painting of Caesar's Chariot. *** Keywords: ************* Author: RUBENS, Pieter Pauwel Title: Triumphal Entry of Henry IV into Paris, 1601-1650, Flemish , painting , historical
RUBENS, Pieter Pauwel Helena Fourment with a Carriage
new22/RUBENS, Pieter Pauwel-368763.jpg 1639 Oil on wood Mus?e du Louvre, Paris *** Keywords: ************* Author: RUBENS, Pieter Pauwel Title: Helena Fourment with a Carriage, 1601-1650, Flemish , painting , portrait
RUBENS, Pieter Pauwel The Hermit and the Sleeping Angelica
new22/RUBENS, Pieter Pauwel-232938.jpg 1626-28 Oil on oakwood, 43 x 66 cm Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna The painting is an illustration of one of the episodes of Ariosto's Orlando furioso. Artist:RUBENS, Pieter Pauwel Title: The Hermit and the Sleeping Angelica, 1601-1650, Flemish , painting , other
RUBENS, Pieter Pauwel Dance of the Peasants
new22/RUBENS, Pieter Pauwel-599377.jpg 1636-40 Oil on wood, 73 x 106 cm Museo del Prado, Madrid Artist:RUBENS, Pieter Pauwel Title: Dance of the Peasants, 1601-1650, Flemish , painting , landscape
RUBENS, Pieter Pauwel Self-portrait
new22/RUBENS, Pieter Pauwel-759432.jpg 109,5 x 85 cm Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna This is the last of Rubens's four self-portrait, executed shortly before his death. Artist:RUBENS, Pieter Pauwel Title: Self-portrait, 1601-1650, Flemish , painting , portrait
RUBENS, Pieter Pauwel Christoffel Plantin
new22/RUBENS, Pieter Pauwel-887233.jpg Oil on canvas Museum Plantin-Moretus, Antwerp Christoffel (Christophe) Plantin (1520-1589), French printer, founder of an important printing house and publisher of the Antwerp Polyglot Bible. Plantin learned bookbinding and bookselling at Caen, Normandy, and settled in 1549 as a bookbinder in Antwerp. A bad arm wound seems to have led him (about 1555) to turn to typography. His many publications were distinguished by their excellent typography, and he was original in using copper, instead of wood, engravings for book illustrations. His greatest venture, the Biblia regia, which would fix the original text of Old and New Testaments, was supported by Philip II of Spain in spite of clerical opposition and appeared in eight volumes during 1569-72. When Antwerp was plundered by the Spaniards in 1576 and Plantin had to pay a ransom, he established a branch office in Paris and then, in 1583, settled in Leiden as the typographer of the new university of the states of Holland, leaving his much-reduced business in Antwerp in the hands of his sons-in-law, John Moerentorf (Moretus) and Francis van Ravelinghen (Raphelengius). But in 1585 Plantin returned to Antwerp and Raphelengius took over the business in Leiden. After Plantin's death, the Antwerp business was carried on by Moretus, but it declined during the second half of the 17th century. All was religiously preserved, however, and in 1876 the city of Antwerp acquired the buildings and their contents and created the Plantin-Moretus Museum. Artist:RUBENS, Pieter Pauwel Title: Christoffel Plantin, 1601-1650, Flemish , painting , portrait
RUBENS, Pieter Pauwel Virgin and Child
new22/RUBENS, Pieter Pauwel-644823.jpg 1620-24 Oil on wood, 65 x 48 cm Mus?es Royaux des Beaux-Arts, Brussels Artist:RUBENS, Pieter Pauwel Title: Virgin and Child, 1601-1650, Flemish , painting , religious
RUBENS, Pieter Pauwel Adoration of the Magi
new22/RUBENS, Pieter Pauwel-574224.jpg 1626-29 Oil on canvas, 283 x 219 cm Mus?e du Louvre, Paris Artist:RUBENS, Pieter Pauwel Title: Adoration of the Magi, 1601-1650, Flemish , painting , religious
RUBENS, Pieter Pauwel Adoration of the Magi
new22/RUBENS, Pieter Pauwel-798255.jpg 1618-19 Oil on canvas, 245 x 325 cm Mus?e des Beaux-Arts, Lyon Artist:RUBENS, Pieter Pauwel Title: Adoration of the Magi, 1601-1650, Flemish , painting , religious
RUBENS, Pieter Pauwel Bethrotal of St Catherine
new22/RUBENS, Pieter Pauwel-577746.jpg 1628 Oil on canvas Staatliche Museen, Berlin Artist:RUBENS, Pieter Pauwel Title: Bethrotal of St Catherine (sketch), 1601-1650, Flemish , painting , religious
RUBENS, Pieter Pauwel Diana and her Nymphs Surprised by the Fauns
new22/RUBENS, Pieter Pauwel-544332.jpg 1638-40 Oil on canvas, 128 x 314 cm Museo del Prado, Madrid The landscape and the animals were painted by Jan Wildens. Artist:RUBENS, Pieter Pauwel Title: Diana and her Nymphs Surprised by the Fauns, 1601-1650, Flemish , painting , mythological
RUBENS, Pieter Pauwel The Duke of Buckingham
new22/RUBENS, Pieter Pauwel-552773.jpg 1625 Oil on canvas, 63 x 48 cm Galleria Palatina (Palazzo Pitti), Florence George Villiers, the 1st Duke of Buckingham (1592-1628), was a royal favourite and statesman who virtually ruled England during the last years of King James I and the first years of the reign of Charles I. Buckingham was extremely unpopular, and the failure of his aggressive, erratic foreign policy increased the tensions that eventually exploded in the Civil War between the Royalists and the Parliamentarians. Artist:RUBENS, Pieter Pauwel Title: The Duke of Buckingham, 1601-1650, Flemish , painting , portrait
RUBENS, Pieter Pauwel Fall of the Rebel Angels
new22/RUBENS, Pieter Pauwel-622426.jpg 1620 Oil on canvas, 448 x 291 cm Alte Pinakothek, Munich Artist:RUBENS, Pieter Pauwel Title: Fall of the Rebel Angels, 1601-1650, Flemish , painting , religious