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lionofchaeronea · 6 months

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All Saints, Peter Paul Rubens, ca. 1614

#All Saints Day #dia de los muertos #Day of the Dead #art #art history #Rubens #Peter Paul Rubens #religious art #Christian art #Christianity #Catholicism #saints in art #Baroque #Baroque art #Flemish Baroque #Flemish art #17th century art #oil on panel #Museum Boijmans van Beuningen

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geritsel · 1 year

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Jan Brueghel the Elder - Aeneas and the Sibyl in the Underworld, c.1600.

#flemish baroque #hades #aeneid #virgil

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resplendentoutfit · 6 months

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The extravagant, outrageous, and often humorous outfits worn by subjects of old portraits.

Anthony Van Dyck (Flemish, 1599-1641) • James Stuart, 1st Duke of Richmond and Lenox • 1633

The duke is sporting the latest in hairstyles - the lovelock. Also called a Bourbon lock, French lock, or heart breaker. He must've missed the scathing indicment below.

“Although considered quite fashionable, many people detested lovelocks, considering them unnecessary and extravagant. In 1628 a sixty-three page book denouncing lovelocks was published. The author, William Prynne, railed against the wearing of lovelocks as “Unlovely, Sinfull, Unlawfull, Fantastique, Disolute, Singular, Incendiary, Ruffianly, Graceless, Whorish, Ungodly, Horred [Horrid], Strange, Outlandish, Impudent, Pernicious, Offensive, Ridiculous, Foolish, Childish, Unchristian, Hatefull, Exorbitant, Contemptible, Sloathfull, Unmanly, Depraving, Vaine, and Unseemly,” according to Richard Corson in Fashions in Hair.”

Anthony van Dyck (Flemish, 1599-1641) • Henri II de Lorraine • 1634 • National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.

Sorry, girls and boys, this gent is spoken for. Henri is wearing ribbons in his lovelock, which symbolizes a token from a romantic interest. He didn't read the memo, either.

#james stewart #duke of cambridge #portrait #art #flemish baroque #the resplendent outfit #dutch artist #art history #fashion history #painting #royal portraits #lovelock #anthony van dyck

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izvletchenie · 10 months

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Jan Brueghel the Elder, Still Life of Flowers in a Stoneware Vase (detail), c. 1607

#Jan Brueghel the Elder #Flemish Baroque

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pazzesco · 7 months

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Peter Paul Rubens - The Wolf and Fox Hunt, 1616

Now held in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. It shows mounted and walking hunters chasing two wolves and three foxes. The painting was completed with the help of assistants, although the wolves were painted entirely by Rubens.

It marks the beginning of an intensive creative phase in which Rubens focused on the theme of hunting.

Rubens - The Hippopotamus and Crocodile Hunt

Rubens - The Lion Hunt

Rubens - The Tiger Hunt

Rubens - The Wild Boar Hunt

Rubens - Diana Returning from Hunt, 1615

According to the date, this was actually the first of his so-called "Hunting Phase." I'm guessing it doesn't count because it doesn't show the women actually hunting down their prey, or the men hunting for fruit...

And after painting all those damned carnivores, Sir Peter was inspired by Pythagoras's speech in Ovid's Metamorphoses, he followed up with...

Pythagoras Advocating Vegetarianism, 1618

He needed help on this painting, he wasn't very good with fruit, RAW MEAT WAS his specialty after all. He needed the help of of his buddy, Frans, seriously... Frans Snyders had to paint the fruit and he received credit with Rubens on the piece.

Don't believe me? Check it out - ROYAL COLLECTION TRUST

"It was a collaboration between Rubens, who did the figures, and Frans Snyders, who did the foodstuffs. In this case Snyders painted the fruit and vegetables first and then passed the canvas over to Rubens who was careful not to paint over any of his friend's work."

See, I wouldn't make that up. Anyway, while working on the painting he became a full-blown Renaissance Pythagorean Vegetarian (RPV). Shortly after finishing the painting, he locked himself in his studio and planning to prevent partitioning of perspective profits, proceeded to polish up on his production of painted produce. Freaking unfortunate for his ill-fated friend Frans...

Sir Peter Paul Rubens (self-portrait), c. 1620s

Born - June 28, 1577 -- Died - May 30, 1640

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kecobe · 2 years

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The Sense of Smell Peter Paul Rubens (Flemish; 1577–1640) and Jan Brueghel the Elder (Flemish; 1568–1625) 1617–18 Oil on panel Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid, Spain

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pagansphinx · 7 months

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Peter Paul Rubens (Flemish, 1577-1640) • The Disembarkation of Versailles, also known as The Arrival of Marie de Medici at Marseille • Between 1622 and 1625

The Arrival of Marie de’ Medici at Marseilles shows the Queen of France arriving by ship in Marseille on November 3, 1600. She is greeted by unknown characters that represent France, as they are seen with the French royalty symbol, the Fleur-de-lis. At the bottom of the painting, Neptune and the daughters of Nereus, the Sea God, are seen saluting the Queen. At the top of the painting, the character Fame is flying overhead, trumpeting the Queen’s arrival. Rubens uses these symbolic figures to transform a historical event into an allegory that reinforces Marie de' Medici's right to the throne. The various French symbols depicted greeting Marie upon her arrival are meant to establish good will and respect between her and the French people. - Wikipedia

The main reason why Marie de' Medici was never liked by the French population was because she was Italian, not French.

On a diplomatic visit to France (yes, he was a diplomat) Rubens encountered Marie de' Medici who commissioned a series of 21 paintings related to events that happened during her life, while 3 others are portraits of herself and her parents. They were intended to decorate Luxembourg Palace in Paris.

Detail of the mythological figures below the boat / Wiki Commons

The entire idea of the cycle was to glorify Marie de' Medici, and especially to try and convey to the people of France that she was a rightful ruler. Rubens therefore, according to art history speculation, depicted a warm welcome by members of the court of Henry IV. In reality, the welcome was rather lukewarm, if not chilly.

The Rubens cycle of paintings obviously didn't accomplish their intended purpose. Medici was forced out of her position as Regent of France in 1617 as the result of a coup and exiled, eventually residing in Cologne. In an interesting twist of fate, Marie de Medici died in the same house that Rubens grew up in.

Installation view of the cycle of paintings at the Louvre. They were moved there from Luxembourg Palace in 1793, when the Louvre first opened its doors.

Sources: Wikipedia, arthistoryreference.com, lelouvre.fr, artible.com, wga.hu

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somethingwithmoles · 1 year

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Pieter Claesz, Still life with nautilus cup and musk apple on golden chain, 1636, oil (?) on panel, 47 x 61 cm, LWL-Museum für Kunst und Kultur (Westphalian State Museum of Art and Cultural History), Münster

Source: Wikimedia Commons

#art #painting #Pieter Claesz #still life #vanitas still life #vanitas #memento mori #17th century #17th century art #17th century painting #17th century still life #baroque #baroque art #baroque painting #baroque still life #Dutch baroque #Flemish baroque

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eatingbreadandhoney · 1 year

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Equestrian Portrait of the Duke of Buckingham by Peter Paul Rubens 1625

#Peter Paul Rubens #1600s #Flemish Baroque #baroque #portrait

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nakedinthecity · 2 years

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Flemish Baroque Roses, 11.06.2022

#flemish baroque #poland #polska #roses #rose #flower #flowers #orchard #nature #light #photography #canon #photographers on tumblr

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flyse · 2 years

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The Holy Family with Saints Elizabeth and John the Baptist, Peter Paul Rubens (Flemish, Siegen 1577–1640 Antwerp), 1610-20

Oil on panel

114.5 × 91.5 cm

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lionofchaeronea · 20 days

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Golgotha, Anthony van Dyck, 1630

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geritsel · 1 year

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Tobias Verhaecht - Alpine Landscape

#flemish baroque #museo del prado

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resplendentoutfit · 7 months

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Jan Thomas or Jan Thomas van Ieperen (Flemish, 1617-1673) • Gundakar, Prince of Dietrichstein (1623-1690) • Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna, Austria

The outrageous, extravagant, and hilarious outfits worn by subjects of old portraits.

#flemish baroque #baroque art #the resplendent outfit #jan thomas

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izvletchenie · 2 years

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Jan Brueghel the Elder, Flowers in a Vase, 1608

#Jan Brueghel the Elder #Flemish Baroque

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didzblog · 11 months

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Peter Paul Rubens - Medusa (1618)

Medusa, or sometimes referred to as The Head of Medusa is a c.1618 painting by the Flemish painter Peter Paul Rubens, showing the severed head of Medusa. Rubens enlisted the help of Frans Snyders who worked with him multiple times. Snyders was a nature artist and worked with Rubens to paint animals in his pieces, such as the snakes in Medusa. The snakes portrayed are nonvenomous European grass snakes, except for the two snakes on the right side of her head which are vipers. Vipers are a medieval symbol of ungratefulness. In Greek mythology, Medusa is portrayed as having venomous snakes for hair. The vipers are shown mating with the female having the male's head in her mouth. Towards the middle of the painting, an amphisbaena is shown. An amphisbaena is a snake-like creature that has two heads, one on each end of its body, and is noted in classical mythology. Medusa is shown to have just been slain and is laying down in a pool of blood with the snakes and reptiles surrounding her.

#peter paul rubens #frans snyders #painting #oil on canvas #artwork #Greek Mythology #renaissance #naturalistic art #caravaggism #flemish baroque

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