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    Rubens: His Palette
    Rubens: His Palette
    Rubens: His Palette
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    Rubens: His Palette

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    Peter Paul Rubens (1577-1640) was the most versatile and influential Baroque artist in northern Europe in the seventeenth century. Highly gifted and internationally oriented, the Flemish artist received commissions from almost all of Europe's major courts. His art blends the High Renaissance of Italy, with which he was familiar from an eight-year stay on the Italian peninsula, with northern realism. Having a phenomenal knowledge of classical antiquity, he was the prototype of the intellectual artist.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherArron Adams
    Release dateApr 11, 2016
    ISBN9788892593619
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      Rubens - Arron Adams

      Rubens

      His Palette

      By Arron Adams

      First Edition

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      Rubens: His Palette 

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      Copyright © 2016 Arron Adams

      Foreword

      Peter Paul Rubens (1577 – 1640), was a Flemish Baroque painter, and proponents of an exaggerated Baroque style that emphasised movement, colour, and sensuality. He is well known for his altarpieces, portraits, landscapes, and history paintings of mythological and allegorical subjects.

      Rubens received a classical education; his artistic training was entrusted to Tobias Verhaecht, Adam van Noort and Otto van Veen; he became a master of the Antwerp Guild of St. Luke in 1598. Between 1600 and 1608 he stayed in Italy, traveling in the service of Vincenzo Gonzaga in Mantuaon on a diplomatic mission to Spain in 1603-04. He became aquatinted with the works of Classical antiquity, compositions of the great Renaissance masters and with those of his contemporaries.

      In 1608 he returned to Antwerp and in 1609 married Isabella Brant. In the same year he was appointed court painter to the governor (Stadholder), Archduke Albrecht, and his wife, the Infanta Isabella. In 1610 he purchased a piece of land on which he built a large house with studios. In the following decade he received a number of major commissions, including the cycle of paintings for the gallery of the Palais du Luxembourg in Paris (1622-25), commissioned by the widowed queen mother of France. In 1626 Isabella Brant died. In 1628 Rubens again visited Spain on a diplomatic mission to the court of Philip IV. In 1629-30 he was at the court of Charles I in England. Rubens married the 16-year-old Helene Fourment in 1630.

      Amongst the major works he executed in the course of the following years were cartoons for several series of tapestries, the ceiling frescoes in the Banqueting House, Whitehall, London (1630-34), for Charles I, and his collaboration (1634-35) on the festive decorations for the entry of the Cardinal-Infante Ferdinand into Antwerp (1634-35). His last important commission consisted of the designs for paintings for Philip IV's hunting lodge Torre de la Parada near Madrid. Rubens died in Antwerp 1640.

      The majority of Rubens's drawings served as a step toward a final work of art in another medium. Rubens kept his drawings close by as studio material to be used by his assistants and collaborators. It was often with the help of his drawings that assistants would execute the related paintings; later, Rubens would merely add the finishing touches. There are indications that the artist guarded his drawings from the outside world, both because he wanted no one to witness his artistic exertions, his sweat and toil, and because the drawings were considered a kind of studio secret. How careful he was about them is clear from his last will and testament, in which he stipulated that his drawings were not to be sold until it was clear that none

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