With no diplomatic mission to accomplish, and an open commission, Rubens was free to express his experience of war.
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When you’re a great narrative painter and a diplomat, one painting might be all that is needed to secure a peace treaty.
The second section maintains the botanical metaphor, in which love flowers, and passes. Six superb paintings explain.
The short conclusion to the house of Cadmus is touching, doubly transformative, and painted by a single artist.
Some extraordinary paintings exploring transient and unusual effects of light, culminating in a retrospective, and his most radical work of all.
The first six paintings in his mature 1902 version of the Frieze explore the early development of love, told from a very personal point of view.
It looks like a regular, exquisitely beautiful landscape, with forests, rugged hills, and rivers. In fact it bears a story, told largely in its figures.
Princess, sorceress, seductress, wife, mother, and vengeful filicide – one of the most complex characters to paint. Known from her letter in Heroides, and a lost work by Ovid.
Like the Alma-Tademas, a Belgian family of talented painters who specialised in scenes set in Pompeii.
As the social message in his paintings faded, so they became brighter, and more appealing. Then he painted Ceres and dandelions…
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