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The Raising of the Cross is the perfect summation of the unruly bravura that marked his first years in Antwerp. In the centre nine executioners strain with all their might to raise the cross from which Christ's pale body hangs. The dramatic action is witnessed from the left by St John, the Virgin Mary and a group of weeping women and children.
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Oct 14, 2023 · Painted between 1612 and 1614, The Descent from the Cross forms the central part of a triptych created by Rubens for the Cathedral of Our Lady in Antwerp. A notable example of the Baroque school of art, the image shows the crucified Christ being taken down from his cross. This triptych is the second of two altarpieces that Rubens painted for ...
Descent from the Cross, triptych created by Flemish artist Peter Paul Rubens in 1611–14 for the altar of the Cathedral of Our Lady in Antwerp, Belgium, commissioned by the city’s Guild of the Arquebusiers (“Musketeers”). Rubens began the work after his return from Italy, and the altarpiece is rife with lessons he learned there, from the rich Venetian colors to the dramatic lighting and ...
May 26, 2024 · Peter Paul Rubens (born June 28, 1577, Siegen, Nassau, Westphalia [Germany]—died May 30, 1640, Antwerp, Spanish Netherlands [now in Belgium]) was a Flemish painter who was the greatest exponent of Baroque painting’s dynamism, vitality, and sensuous exuberance. Though his masterpieces include portraits and landscapes, Rubens is perhaps best ...
Rubens's physiognomy is less classical and robust (compare, for example, the study for the figure of Christ in the British Museum [Judson, fig. 92] in which the lines for the hair are sketchier and the face less corporeal). In addition, the use of red and black chalk was used by Rubens when he was in Italy, copying Italian works of art (see Jaffé.
Peter Paul Rubens. Peter Paul Rubens approached art with a passion that had not been encountered since the great masters. Rubens loved portraying the human emotional and psychological state through the depiction of the body and being an avid humanist, he sought to paint realistic works. Rubens' oeuvre is well defined by his classical figures of ...
