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Peter Paul Rubens paintings art

Peter Paul Rubens was a prolific artist. His commissioned works were mostly religious subjects, "history" paintings, which included 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 Joyous Entry into Antwerp by the Cardinal-Infante Ferdinand in 1635.

His drawings are mostly extremely forceful but not detailed; he also made great use of oil sketches as preparatory studies. 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.

His fondness of painting full-figured women gave rise to the terms 'Rubensian' or 'Rubenesque' for plus-sized women.

Rubens was a great admirer of Leonardo da Vinci's work. Using an engraving done 50 years after Leonardo started his project on the Battle of Anghiari, Rubens did a masterly drawing of the Battle which is now in the Louvre in Paris. "The idea that an ancient copy of a lost artwork can be as important as the original is familiar to scholars," says Salvatore Settis, archaeologist and art historian.

(image for) Peter Paul Rubens - Rape Of The Daughters Of Leucippus

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(image for) Peter Paul Rubens - The Three Graces, 1635

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(image for) Peter Paul Rubens - The Fall of Man 1628–29. Prado, Madrid

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(image for) Peter Paul Rubens -Venus at the Mirror, 1615

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(image for) Peter Paul Rubens -The Judgment of Paris, 1639, Museo del Prado

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(image for) Peter Paul Rubens -Diana and Callisto, 1639, Museo del Prado

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(image for) Peter Paul Rubens -The Château de Steen with Hunter, c. 1635–8

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