Rubens Famous Paintings and Quotes at atlandbiz

April 20, 2011 - PRLog -- Peter Paul Rubens was a prolific seventeenth-century Flemish Baroque painter, and a proponent of an extravagant Baroque style that emphasized movement, color, and sensuality. Rubens paintings are well-known for Counter-Reformation altarpieces, portraits, landscapes, and history paintings of mythological and allegorical subjects.

In addition to running a large studio in Antwerp that produced paintings popular with nobility and art collectors throughout Europe, Rubens was a classically educated humanist scholar, art collector, and diplomat who was knighted by both Philip IV, King of Spain, and Charles I, King of England.

The typical style of this new Baroque style was equally respected and loved or it’s use of movement, color, and sensuality. It aimed to bring greater love and emotion into the realistic approach of Renaissance art, and Rubens himself used this approach famously. He also continued the common theme of this time in the use of religious subjects and situations for many of his works. Aside from these altarpieces he also created many portraits, landscapes, and occasional paintings of mythological creatures and characters.

Rubens created huge amounts of art during his career, including commissioned religious paintings and also drawings. He also commonly made see of wooden panels which is unusual to see now. Rubens’ portraits are also well documented due to their quality and also the important of the subjects involved. Rubens also created many interesting self-portraits throughout his career, which help document his artistic progression visually. The term ‘Rubensian’ or ‘Rubenesque’ is now used to describe art subjects of a larger nature (typically female), which Rubens was known for using. This is a far cry from the media of today, which could learn from thus.

Rubens now remains in the public heart as a crucial artist in the Baroque movement and one who still touches people today through his majestic oil paintings and sketches.

Rubens is also popular artist in oil painting reproductions and his paintings are good choice for home decor. The following are some hot sell Rubens art reproductions:

The Straw Hat
Duke of Lerma
Venus at a Mirror
Rape of the Daughters of Leucippus
Saint Ignatius of Loyola
The Slaying of Goliath

Rubens Quotes

"My talent is such that no undertaking, however vast in size… has ever surpassed my courage."

"Every child has the spirit of creation. The rubbish of life often exterminates the spirit through plague and a souls own wretchedness."

"Painting a young maiden is similar to cavorting with great abandon. It is the finest refreshment."

"My passion comes from the heavens, not from earthly musings."

"I’m just a simple man standing alone with my old brushes, asking God for inspiration."

"Each morning I shoo the beggars and cripples from my door stoop. If God wanted these vermin to eat surely he would provide them with substance."

"White is poison to a picture: use it only in highlights."

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