1. Paintings by Rubens for Sale2. About Peter Paul Rubens3. Analysis of Ruben Art3.1 Assumption of the Virgin Mary 3.2 The Three Graces 3.3 The Straw Hat / Rubens Portrait of Susanna Fourment 3.4 Rape of the Daughters of Leucippus 4. Rubens biography5. Story about The Three Graces |
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About Peter Paul RubensBaroque painter and diplomat born 1577 - died 1640 Born in: Germany Movement: Baroque Art Worked with: Jan the elder Brueghel (1568-1625). Also known as: Pedro Pablo de Rubenes, Peter Paul Reubens, ...... |
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The techniques of Ruben painting are perfect and attractive. In 1608, The
artist married Isabella Brant -- a famous lawyer as well as a humanist. Many famous
Rubens portraits of his wife were painted and some other oil paintings on religion and mythology.
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Analysis of Rubens Art
Assumption of the Virgin Mary1626, 490cmX325cm (190inch X 128inch) The Virgin Mary is the mother of Jesus. According to the New Testament, in the process of Jesus missioning, The Virgin Mary only turned up in several important occasions, such as the moment that Jesus was suffering on the cross. Since then, accompanied by Saint Johns The Virgin Mary came to Turkey and spent her rest life there. When The Virgin Mary died like asleep with her calm expression, there appeared the cloud in art Rubens; at that moment the angels came and told to the heaven and earth that The Virgin Mary would return. Three days later, she returned to heaven with her flesh. This is the Assumption of the Virgin Mary. This incident greatly affected the masses of artists in middle ages and the Renaissance. There appeared numerous paintings depict the Assumption of the Virgin Mary, in which an angle flies in to announce that Mary will go back to the Heaven. Its difference from the assumption of Jesus lies in that the angle of Peter Paul Rubens painting is holding a lily representing chastity rather than a palm symbolised Martyrdom. |
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The Three Graces1639-1640 oil painting 181×221cm The nude goddess on the left took his second wife Hélèna Fourment as the model, but the nude goddess on the right is the image of the first Rubens woman in memory. So after the death of the artist, Hélèna Fourment wanted to burn The Three Graces to let off her jealousy. At last, thanks to the cardinal of France who bought this Rubens art at a high price. Two wives are drawn in the same painting The Three Graces and then one of them attempted to ruin the famous painting because of jealousy. This is roughly a big event in the model history. This is generally regarded as a myth artwork in Rubens paintings on canvas in later years. In order to make tone and brush stroke smooth, he mixed resin with the oil in his painting. In the artwork, The Three Graces in the forest refer to the goddess of chastity, goddess of beauty and goddess of love. There is another saying that they are beauty goddess Venus, gentle goddess Taleah and joy goddess Aggerleia . However, the main target for Rubens artist to create The Three Graces is still in the praise of vigorous body. |
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The Straw Hat / Portrait of Susanna Fourment ("Le chapeau de paille)Peter Paul Rubens married 16-year-old Hélèna Fourment, the daughter of a merchant dealing with silk. The painter loved his second wife very much. She was the model of many important paintings by Rubens created in his later years. She is not only as strong as the former with a double chin and a plump hip, but also more easily to adapt the role of a model. Artist Rubens said: “when I am painting for her, she has never blushed.” Rubens works are adherence to Hélèna Fourment. As the model of the 19 portraits and a large number of oil paintings, she can cope with the roles of being robbed, insulted or dragged suffer. Besides, Peter Paul Rubens painted many portrait paintings for his wife’s sister Susanna Fourment. The Portrait of Susanna Fourment（created in 1631-1632;or about 1625）is the most successful one. It is also called Le chapeau de paille / The Straw Hat. Hélèna Fourment was only 26 years old when Rubens the artist passed away. She got remarried to a noble and then she spent her latter years happily. |
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Rape of the Daughters of LeucippusThis work is originated from Greek mythology: the twin sons of Zeus and Leda fall in love with the twin daughters of Leucippus together. Rape of the Daughters of Leucippus depicts the plot of "marriage by capture" in old custom. In the art Rubens, the twisting figures and horses mingle together to form an entirety of art. The outline of the whole famous Rubens painting is roughly circular which shows a shape full of the vitality of life is rolling on the horizon drastically. Two robust horses are wearing imposing appearances. In the painting of Rape of the Daughters of Leucippus, Rubens adopted strong tone to set off the heroic and powerful of the twin brothers as well as the tender and lovely of the nude sisters. In the left corner of the Peter Rubens painting, the winged amoretto gives a subtle hint about the whole artwork: this is a kind of love violence. Rape of the Daughters of Leucippus is a harmonious unity of the power and beauty, in which the concept that the power of love is irresistible is conveyed. Rubens nude paintings are with strong sense of rhythm. The painter uses robust figures modelling Michelangelo’s pattern to extol the beauty of vitality, so paintings of Rubens reflect his humanist thought against asceticism and the factor of carnalism. |
Rubens BiographyEarly life The most subjects of many paintings of Rubens are religion figures so that they became the leading Catholic Counter-Reformation style. By fourteen Peter Paul Rubens began his artistic apprenticeship in Antwerp, and received a humanist education by studying Latin and classical literature. Peter Rubens biography in Italy (1600–1608) Rubens traveled to Venice, Italy in 1600 to see paintings by Titian, Veronese, and Tintoretto. Later year in Rome by way of Florence, Peter Paul Rubens studied classical Greek and Roman art and copied Italian masters' works. Rubens the painter was influenced much by the art of Michelangelo, Raphael, and Leonardo da Vinci, as well as the naturalistic paintings by Caravaggio. On a diplomatic mission in 1603 Rubens Peter travelled to Spain, he studied the extensive collections of Raphael and Titian. After his return to Italy in 1604, numerous Rubens portraits were painted. Rubens biography in Antwerp (1609–1621) Archduke of Austria and Infanta of Spain appointed Peter Paul Rubens as court painter in 1609, at the same year, the painter married his wife Isabella Brant. In 1610, Peter Ruben moved into a new studio designed by himself. Anthony van Dyck was his most famous pupil and became the leading Flemish portraitist. Many Ruben art was finished by collaborating with many specialists active in Antwerp, they're the animal painter Frans Snyders who was famous for eagle and the flower-painter Jan Brueghel the Elder. Ruben painting titled The Raising of the Cross was a prime example of Baroque religious art, it demonstrates the artist's synthesis of Tintoretto work, Michelangelo's dynamic figures, and the personal style of Peter Paul Rubens. in 1628–1629 several important Rubens works was executed for Philip IV and private patrons in Madrid. The artist also began a renewed study of Titian paintings, copying numerous paintings including the Madrid Fall of Man. Rubens workshop also painted monumental paintings for local patrons. The Assumption of the Virgin Mary (1625–6) is one prominent example of Ruben paintings. Last decade of Peter Rubens Biography (1630–1640) Major Ruben art the ceiling paintings for the Banqueting House at Inigo Jones's Palace of Whitehall were for foreign patrons, but also created more personal artistic paintings. In 1630, the 53-year-old artist Rubens married 16-year-old Hélène Fourment whom inspired the voluptuous figures in many Ruben paintings such as The Feast of Venus, The Three Graces, and The Judgment of Paris. Landscape paintings by Rubens reflected the more personal nature of his later works, such as: his Château de Steen with Hunter that is collected at National Gallery, London; Farmers Returning from the Fields that is collected at Pitti Gallery, Florence. Later Rubens art, Flemish Kermis (c. 1630; Louvre, Paris), was drawn upon the Netherlandish traditions of Pieter Bruegel the Elder. Peter Paul Rubens died on 30 May 1640 from heart failure that caused by chronic gout. The painter was interred in Saint Jacob's church, Antwerp. Rubens artist had eight children and died eight months before the born of his youngest child. |
The Three GracesThe Three Graces was depicted in Hesiod’s Theogony as: 1, Aglaia, means radiance; 2, Euphrosine, means joy; 3, Thalia, means flowering. The Three Graces were 3 daughters of Zeus in and Roman Greek mythology, they were pure virgins and lived with the gods, served at the banquets and fostered joie de vivre. The Three Graces served the goddess of love named Aphrodite and were never bored. In dozens of paintings and sculptures the art topic The Three Graces was depicted such as: The Three Graces painted by Raphael in 16th century; The Three Graces in Rubens painting in 17th century; The Three Graces as Antonio Canova sculpture in 19th century; and an abstract sculpture by Heinz Mack, painting by Michael Parkes; a 16th century painting by Lucas Cranach the Elder; an 18th century fountain by Étienne d'Antoine in the Place de la Comédie in France; titled Nymph, a 20th century sculpture by Aristide Maillol; titled Les Trois Grâces, a 20th century sculpture by Niki de Saint Phalle. The Three Graces was also the top of a 1908 opera, Три грации another 1988 Russian opera-parody, a set of three historic buildings on the waterfront in the UNESCO World Heritage site in England, and more. |
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