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The techniques of Rubens portrait paintings are perfect and attractive. In 1608, he married Isabella Brant -- a famous lawyer as well as a humanist. He painted many famous portraits for his wife and some other oil paintings on religion and mythology.

From 1620 to 1630, Rubens painting style changed from the Roman style with a distinct and balanced composition into Baroque style. The colors also changed from distinct colors to a layered mixture. His adoption of exquisite and fiery color made people remind of the Venetian school.

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Peter Paul Rubens Biography

Baroque painter & diplomat
born 1577 - died 1640
Born in: Belgium
Also known as: Pedro Pablo de Rubenes, Peter Paul Reubens, Pietro Paolo Rubbens, Pedro Pablo Rubenes, Peter Paul Rubenns, Paolo Rubens, Peeter Pauwel Rubens, Peter Paolo Rubens, Pierre Paul Rubens, Pieter Paul Rubens, Pietro Pauolo Rubens, Sir Peter Paul Rubens, Pietropaolo Rubenz, Petro Paulo Rubes, Peter Paul Ruuenes.

Worked with: Jan the elder Brueghel (1568-1625).

Biography: The Flemish baroque painter Rubens, b. June 28, 1577, d. May 30, 1640 was the most renowned northern European artist of his day, and is now widely recognized as one of the foremost artists in Western art history.
By completing the fusion of the realistic tradition of Flemish painting with the imaginative freedom and classical themes of Italian Renaissance painting, Peter Paul Rubens art fundamentally revitalized and redirected northern European painting.
his upbringing mirrored the intense religious strife of his age--a fact that was to be of crucial importance in his artistic career. His father, an ardently Calvinist Antwerp lawyer, fled in 1568 to Germany to escape religious persecution, but after his death (1587) the family moved back to Antwerp, where Peter Paul was raised a Roman Catholic and received his early training as an artist and a courtier. By the age of 21 Rubens was a master painter whose aesthetic and religious outlook led him to look to Italy as the place to complete his education. Upon arriving (1600) in Venice, he fell under the spell of the radiant color and majestic forms of Titian, whose work had a formative influence on his mature style. During his 8 years (1600-08) as court painter to the duke of Mantua, Peter Paul Rubens assimilated the lessons of the other Italian Renaissance masters and made (1603) a journey to Spain that had a profound impact on the development of Spanish baroque art. Peter Paul Rubens also spent a considerable amount of time in Rome, where he painted altarpieces for the churches of Santa Croce di Gerusalemme (1602; now in Hopital du Petit-Paris, Grasse, France) and the Chiesa Nuova (1607; now in Musee de Peinture et Sculpture, Grenoble, France), his first widely acknowledged masterpieces. His reputation established, Rubens returned (1608) to Antwerp following the death of his mother and quickly became the dominant artistic figure in the Spanish Netherlands. - Here for sale oil painting reproduction from Netherlandish famous painters.
In the mature phase of his career, Peter Paul Rubens either executed personally or supervised the execution of an enormous body of Peter Paul Rubens paintings that spanned all areas of painting and drawing. A devout Roman Catholic, he imbued many religious Rubens paintings with the emotional tenor of the Counter-Reformation. This aggressively religious stance, along with his deep involvement in public affairs, lent famous Rubens painting a conservative and public cast that contrasts sharply with the more private and secular paintings of his great Dutch contemporary, Rembrandt. But if his roots lay in Italian classical art and in Roman Catholic dogma, Rubens avoided sterile repetition of academic forms by injecting into Rubens paintings a lusty exuberance and almost frenetic energy.

Glowing color and light that flickers across limbs and draperies infuse spiraling compositions such as The Descent from the Cross (1611; Antwerp Cathedral) with a characteristically baroque sense of movement and tactile strength.

A love of monumental forms and dynamic effects is most readily apparent in the vast decorative schemes Peter Paul Rubens executed in the 1620s, including the famous Rubens painting cycle (1622-25; Louvre, Paris), chronicling the life of Marie de Medicis, originally painted for the Luxembourg Palace. In order to complete these huge commissions, Rubens set up a studio along the lines of Italian painters' workshops, in which fully qualified artists executed Rubens paintings from the master's sketches. his personal contribution to the over 2,000 Peter Paul Rubens paintings produced by this studio varied considerably from work to work. Among his most famous assistants were Anthony van Dyck and Frans SNYDERS.

his phenomenal productivity was interrupted from time to time by diplomatic duties given him by his royal patrons, Archduke Ferdinand and Archduchess Isabella, for whom Peter Paul Rubens conducted (1625) negotiations aimed at ending the war between the Spanish Netherlands and the Dutch Republic and helped conclude (1629-30) a peace treaty between England and Spain.

Charles I of England was so impressed with his efforts that Peter Paul Rubens knighted the Flemish painter and commissioned his only surviving ceiling painting, The Allegory of War and Peace (1629; Banqueting House, Whitehall Palace, London).
During the final decade of his life, Rubens turned more and more to portraits, genre scenes, and landscapes. These later Rubens art, such as Landscape with the Chateau of Steen (1636; National Gallery, London), lack the turbulent drama of earlier Rubens paintings but reflect a masterful command of detail and an unflagging technical skill. Despite recurring attacks of arthritis, Peter Paul Rubens art remained an unusually prolific artist throughout his last years, which were spent largely at his estate, Chateau de Steen.

Analysis of Best Known Paintings by Peter Paul Rubens

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Rubens Paintings - The Straw Hat / Portrait of Susanna Fourment ("Le chapeau de paille)
Rubens married 16-year-old Hélèna Fourment, the daughter of a merchant dealing with silk. He loved his second wife very much. She was the model of many important Rubens paintings 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. Rubens said: “when I am painting for her, she has never blushed.” Rubens paintings 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, 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 passed away. She got remarried to a noble and then she spent her latter years happily.

Rubens Famous Paintings - The Three Graces
1639-1640 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 his first wife in memory. So after the death of Rubens, Hélèna Fourment wanted to burn The Three Graces to let off her jealousy. At last, thanks to the cardinal of France who bought this painting 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 to create The Three Graces is still in the praise of vigorous body.

Rubens Painting - Assumption of the Virgin Mary
1626, 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; 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 is holding a lily representing chastity rather than a palm symbolised Martyrdom.

Rubens Famous Paintings - Rape of the Daughters of Leucippus
This 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 artwork, 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 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 Rubens art reflect his humanist thought against asceticism and the factor of carnalism.

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