Word: fourment
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Later in his life, a widowed Rubens abandoned his roles as diplomat and teacher, and settled down quietly with a second, younger wife, Helene Fourment. He said he fully intended to enjoy "the illicit pleasures of marriage." His sugary, mildly erotic Garden of Love, replete with cherubic angels and sparkling applications of paint, is a far cry from the violent and dramatic Prometheus. Illustrating an open-air party of fleshy, amorous aristocrats dressed in satin, Garden of Love is an obvious precursor of the eighteenth-century fete-champetre popularized by Rococco artists such as Watteau...