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Peter Paul Rubens - Horses’ heads and human head in profile, with detail of horse’s eye and nose

Horses’ heads and human head in profile, with detail of horse’s eye and nose

Peter Paul Rubens (Flemish, 1577-1640)
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Peter Paul Rubens

Sir Peter Paul Rubens was a Flemish artist and diplomat from the Duchy of Brabant in the Southern Netherlands (modern-day Belgium). He is considered the most influential artist of the Flemish Baroque tradition. Rubens's highly charged compositions reference erudite aspects of classical and Christian history. His unique and immensely popular Baroque style emphasized movement, colour, and sensuality, which followed the immediate, dramatic artistic style promoted in the Counter-Reformation. Rubens was a painter producing altarpieces, portraits, landscapes, and history paintings of mythological and allegorical subjects. He was also a prolific designer of cartoons for the Flemish tapestry workshops and of frontispieces for the publishers in Antwerp.

In addition to running a large workshop in Antwerp that produced paintings popular with nobility and art collectors throughout Europe, Rubens was a classically educated humanist scholar and diplomat who was knighted by both Philip IV of Spain and Charles I of England. Rubens was a prolific artist. The catalogue of his works by Michael Jaffé lists 1,403 pieces, excluding numerous copies made in his workshop.

His commissioned works were mostly history paintings, which included religious and mythological subjects, and hunt scenes. He painted portraits, especially of friends, and self-portraits, and in later life painted several landscapes. Rubens designed tapestries and prints, as well as his own house. He also oversaw the ephemeral decorations of the royal entry into Antwerp by the Cardinal-Infante Ferdinand of Austria in 1635. He wrote a book with illustrations of the palaces in Genoa, which was published in 1622 as Palazzi di Genova. The book was influential in spreading the Genoese palace style in Northern Europe. Rubens was an avid art collector and had one of the largest collections of art and books in Antwerp. He was also an art dealer and is known to have sold an important number of art objects to George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham.

He was one of the last major artists to make consistent use of wooden panels as a support medium, even for very large works, but he used canvas as well, especially when the work needed to be sent a long distance. For altarpieces he sometimes painted on slate to reduce reflection problems.

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Studies of the female torso, buttocks, and seated figures, dorsal view

Studies of the female torso, buttocks, and seated figures, dorsal view

Peter Paul Rubens (Flemish, 1577-1640)
Six studies of male figures in various prone and supine positions

Six studies of male figures in various prone and supine positions

Peter Paul Rubens (Flemish, 1577-1640)
Several winged figures in flight, and a figure with a spear

Several winged figures in flight, and a figure with a spear

Peter Paul Rubens (Flemish, 1577-1640)
Four studies of crucified figures

Four studies of crucified figures

Peter Paul Rubens (Flemish, 1577-1640)
Two figures straining against a post

Two figures straining against a post

Peter Paul Rubens (Flemish, 1577-1640)
Three studies of seated male figures

Three studies of seated male figures

Peter Paul Rubens (Flemish, 1577-1640)
Four studies of men’s heads, and an eye

Four studies of men’s heads, and an eye

Peter Paul Rubens (Flemish, 1577-1640)
Five studies of men’s heads displaying various hair styles, beards and mustaches; one seated figure, half-length

Five studies of men’s heads displaying various hair styles, beards and mustaches; one seated figure, half-length

Peter Paul Rubens (Flemish, 1577-1640)
Five male figures

Five male figures

Peter Paul Rubens (Flemish, 1577-1640)
Various figures including Roman soldiers, and partially draped male and female nudes

Various figures including Roman soldiers, and partially draped male and female nudes

Peter Paul Rubens (Flemish, 1577-1640)
Two human female faces and two noses–one human, animal

Two human female faces and two noses–one human, animal

Peter Paul Rubens (Flemish, 1577-1640)
One nude and three clothed female figures

One nude and three clothed female figures

Peter Paul Rubens (Flemish, 1577-1640)
Studies of the head of a bearded man, and the head of a creature

Studies of the head of a bearded man, and the head of a creature

Peter Paul Rubens (Flemish, 1577-1640)
Studies of figures in upright positions

Studies of figures in upright positions

Peter Paul Rubens (Flemish, 1577-1640)
Two satyrs, and the head of a satyr

Two satyrs, and the head of a satyr

Peter Paul Rubens (Flemish, 1577-1640)
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