Word: rubenses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Rubens' own confidently drawn self-characterization found few dissenters in his day or since. Of himself as an artist
Rubens once remarked: "My talent is such that no undertaking, however vast or various, has ever surpassed my courage." Of himself as a diplomat: "I assure you that in public affairs I am the most dispassionate man in the world, except where my property and person are concerned ... I regard...
Rubens seized the unparalleled opportunity to study at first hand the great masters of the past.
As a result, Rubens returned to Antwerp aged 31 in 1608, both a skilled courtier, versed in eight languages, and a master artist with the whole repertory of Renaissance techniques at his fingertips. In drawings such as his sketch for Daniel in the Lions' Den (left), he proved that...
This week in Raleigh, N.C. the newest major art museum in the U.S., and the first to have a collection fully subsidized by state funds, opens its doors with more than a million dollars' worth of paintings already hanging on its walls. Aiming for broad representation rather than high...