Thursday, August 13, 2015

Flemish Baroque

Peter Paul Rubens
Diana & Callisto
1638-40
Prado

What a rewarding and multifarious painter was Peter Paul Rubens, monarch of Flemish Baroque. This dozen of his paintings from Madrid and New York give some sense of his range.

Peter Paul Rubens
Equestrian Portrait of the Duke of Lerma
1603
Prado

Peter Paul Rubens
Garden of Love
1633-34
Prado

Peter Paul Rubens
Rest on the Flight into Egypt Attended by-Saints
c. 1632-35
Prado

Peter Paul Rubens
Birth of the Milky Way
1636-37
Prado

Peter Paul Rubens
Judgment of Paris
c. 1638
Prado

Peter Paul Rubens
Wolf & Fox Hunt
c. 1616
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York


Peter Paul Rubens
Atalanta & Meleager
c. 1616
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Peter Paul Rubens
Adoration of the Magi
1609, revised 1629
Prado

Peter Paul Rubens
St. John the Evangelist
c. 1610-12
Prado

Peter Paul Rubens
Portrait of a Man
1597
oil on copper
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Peter Paul Rubens
St. Andrew
c. 1610-12
Prado