Peter Paul Rubens

Peter Paul Rubens was born in Westphalia, Germany and was raised in Antwerp, Germany. Rubens was the sixth child of the family. Father was Jan Rubens and the mother was Maria Pypelinckx. Rubens’s family moved around a lot. When Rubens’s father passed away, Maria moved him and his siblings backed to Antwerp. Rubens was a well-educated man. He attended a Cathedral Latin School. First took his liking into art when he went to study under the Antwerp painters Tobias Verhaet. This was a landscape artist in his town. He eventually became a master of the guild of St. Luke. At age 23, he left for Italy to work as a court painter for the next eight years. Through the span of these eight years he does many art works in Rome and in Spain. These eight years can be described as the most important in his career. Rubens…

Sir Peter Paul Rubens was born on June 28th 1577 in the town of Siegen in Westphalia (now Germany). “He is one of seven children of a wealthy lawyer. Juan Rubens and while his mother Maria Pypelincks was cultured and educated & . Rubens father was a legal adviser and lover to Anna of Saxony who was the wife of William I of Orange. William I was the main leader of the Dutch revolt against the Spanish. Peter Paul Rubens father was imprisoned for the affair in 1570 however, he was released…

Analyzing Art Work by Different Artists from Different Periods Art is very important to people especially when it represents spirituality. It adds a strong connection between the artist and the viewers on something they both agree on. Art in the early Renaissance was mostly about spirituality, but as time passes by, artists paid less attention to spirituality, and they started adding other themes to art. I intend to show that The Last Supper by Leonardo da Vinci, represents the scene of The…

The emerging era of the 17th century produced various pieces of baroque art, flourishing as the Golden Age of Spanish painting. Of noble and dramatic themes, various works were sponsored by the Catholic Church, aspiring to compel worshippers to their doors. Successful baroque paintings demanded an audience, ones to admire the theatrical aestheticism; only artists who employed elements of tenebrism and chiaroscuro achieved such breathtaking drama. Two prime examples that applied these practices…

For my research paper, I will be examining gender relationships in seventeenth century France as portrayed by The Massacre of the Innocents by Peter Paul Rubens. My current impressions from this painting was that women were expected to be submissive or need to be controlled. While I was unable to find any secondary sources that specifically discussed The Massacre of the Innocents, I was able to find two articles discussing other works by Rubens and how they related to French culture. The first…

sad and then Argos dies, which makes him feel like he missed out on Argos’s life. The painting says that you shouldn’t miss out on opportunities that you will one day later regret. So think about things before doing them because you might want to take a different path. And live life to the fullest. Theodoor van Thulden was born August 9, 1606. Theodoor is an Antwerp painter, draftsman and print artist who immigrated there from the Northern Netherlands. In 1621-1622 he was a student of the…

Frans Francken the Younger was a Flemish-born in the 16th century, during the Baroque era after the Protestant Reformation, in the year of 1581 in Antwerp, Belgium. Ironically, he died in his hometown on May 6, 1642. He happened to be a very popular and well-liked artist during his lifetime. Somer sources claim that he may have been an apprentice to his father in the studio and studied art in Paris with his uncle, both of whom were very successful in art themselves. He later became very well…

Rembrandt was believed to have been inspired by the Flemish artist Peter Paul Rubens. In this particular portrait, Rembrandt’s inclusion of a hooked thumb makes reference to one of Ruben’s pieces, indicating he was drawing on techniques and styles from other Netherlandish artists of his time. The majority of the frame is overtaken by the man’s figure, emphasizing his large presence in relation to the overall size of the painting. Such qualities indicate that the painting serves the purpose of…

Thesis Peter Paul Rubens was an extraordinary artist developing masterpieces focused on Renaissance and Baroque artistry. Paragraph 1-- Life Peter Paul Rubens born in Seigen, Germany in 1577. His father, Jan Rubens, was a lawyer and a high ranked member of the counsel. His mother, Maria, was a strict Roman Catholic. His parents took Peter and his three siblings and moved away from Antwerp, to Netherlands to avoid religious conflicts. After Peter’s Father’s death in 1587, the family moved…

Peter Paul Rubens was very knowledgeable on classical literature. • Peter Paul Rubens was probably one of the only artists that would frequently place or quote pieces of classical literary and figures into his works of art. • He used classical figures and ideas to amplify the meaning of his art. • Rubens would have studio assistants and pupils execute most or all of large-scale paintings, but Rubens would finish and retouch finished paintings to make sure that poor artistic style by…