Peter Paul Rubens is a name that inspired today’s world from cinema to painting in many areas with his works on which he carries abundant figured mythological subjects, the colors and dynamic lines he uses.
Peter Paul Rubens (1577 – 1640) is the son of a Flemish lawyer father who fled to Germany due to the pressure exerted on the Protestants after he switched from Catholicism to Protestantism. He begins his painting education by taking lessons from Tobias Verhaecht and Adam van Noort. Later he started training from Otto van Veen, who came in the Italian school.
Rubens had the opportunity to examine the masters of the Renaissance as well as the works of Caracci and Caravaggio in the long term in Italy. According to him, the task of the artist was to paint the surrounding nature, making us feel that he enjoyed the lively beauty of the objects. Rubens admired Carracci and his school, who have revived the tradition of painting classic stories and legends and painted impressive altar paintings for the education of believers. He also respected the uncompromising sincerity Caravaggio showed when studying nature.
Peter Paul Rubens, one of the greatest Baroque painter in Flemish painting, one of the most powerful artists of all time and all times, left his mark on the age. This important representative of the Flemish Baroque was an anti-classist. His paintings evoke Michelangelo, even Raffaello, in terms of structure, rhythm and composition distribution, and Tiziano in color. He took the dramatic atmosphere in the painting and the style of light use from Caravaggio. He has integrated all this with his own personal style.
This skills brought Rubens a reputation and success that no artist had achieved before. He made paintings for the richest and noble royal families of the period, palaces and churches. The drafts of the paintings are prepared by Rubens himself, the interim studies and details are made by his assistants, the last checks are reviewed again, so that a painting was completed as a result of many people’s collaboration. This was the tradition of workshops of the period, and a large number of orders could only be raised in this way.
King of France XIII. From Louis, Louis’ mother, Maria Medici, King of Spain III. He received orders from Philip and the king of England, Charles I, who honored the artist with his knighthood. As a guest of honor, diplomatic and politically sensitive tasks were also often imposed when going from one palace to another. The most important of these is mediation by England and Spain to establish a front that we can call conservative today.
Rubens has had many famous students and assistants, the most important of which is Van Dyck. Arşidük Albrecht, who was impressed by Rubens’ mind, knowledge, experience, culture and speaking ability, whose life was full of wealth, happiness and success, appointed himself as the painter of the palace.
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