taking his cue from his role model hollow baronies a rubens created a monumental work of art. in sixteen thirty five rubens and his family moved to the rural head stay in a state located between antwerp and brussels a stately home in the flemish renaissance style. his wife was expecting their third
child and rubens wished for a quieter less strenuous life. he continued to manage his studio and antwerp but he began devoting more time to his personal interests and turned to landscape painting. this scene of a thunderstorm was executed soley for his own pleasure. the striking painting is seen here undergoing restoration in the workshop of vienna s to store a museum. the passing of almost four hundred years has taken a toll on rubens surviving paintings. many have temporarily disappeared from public
influence of the moves if you have it s hard to overstate the influence of italy on rubens. it can t be summed up in a word. one could say that you ll be a rubens the real rubens was born angele. the painter the artist truly experienced a metamorphosis there. after an eight year stay rubens left italy in the autumn of sixteen zero zero eight his mother was gravely ill. he was very close to his family especially his brother philip who held an important office in antwerp. but by the time he arrived in december his mother had died. he decided to remain nevertheless and would never return to italy. his brother introduced him to a young woman and rubens fell in love.
influence of the moves if you it s hard to overstate the influence of italy on rubens. it can t be summed up in a word. one could say that are all rubens the real rubens was born in angele. the painter the artist truly experienced a metamorphosis there. after an eight year stay ruben s left italy in the autumn of sixteen zero zero eight. his mother was gravely ill. he was very close to his family especially his brother philip who held an important office in antwerp. but by the time he arrived in december his mother had died. he decided to remain nevertheless and would never return to italy. his brother introduced him to a young woman and rubens fell in love.
involved in politics. at the same time we also see that he s painting different subject matter. allegories of love for example in which is why for adopts the role of a muse all the time today to. the judgment of paris painted for the spanish king. rubens wife appears unmistakably as the goddess at the center of the composition. so one mistake a boy the artist immediately faced calls to paint clothes on to the figure. but he steadfastly refused. she also served as the model for one of his best known paintings the three graces. ruben s perfected the art of painting skin the priest blace and dimpled almost palpable in its details rendition.