Word: rubenses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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¶ The Wildenstein Galleries presented 35 canvases (TIME, March 12) by one of the greatest artists who ever lived, Peter Paul Rubens.
Until the day of his death in 1640, Peter Paul Rubens lived hugely. He painted more pictures|than any other artist of the era, created 'hundreds of masterpieces. Portrait commissions and diplomatic missions made him a familiar figure at the courts of Europe, but he could most often be...
A Manhattan gallery had 35 Rubens oils on exhibition last week-enough to hint at the height and breadth of his genius. For all its size, Rubens' genius was not deep in any spiritual sense: the pagan gods he painted were muscular and gay, his goddesses fat and sassy...
When the breath seems short and the blood thin, as in a few of the pictures on show last week, the chances are that they are factory products sketched by Rubens, painted by an assistant and then retouched and signed by the master's hand. He was an art...
Rubens did best when he stood alone before a vast canvas; his finest works are huge mythological scenes filled with cream-and-honey nudes, and Biblical illustrations done on an equally grand and almost equally sensuous scale. But he could also put his passion for people into a small portrait...