Word: rubenses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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WHATEVER pleasures there had been in being a Renaissance man, the Flemish artist, Peter Paul Rubens, took them. Every afternoon he rode his Spanish thoroughbreds. He ate richly enough to die of gout, fathered eight children, dabbled sufficiently in diplomacy to be knighted by the King of England, and as...
Actually, few of the 2,000-odd paintings that are recognized Rubenses were totally done by his hand. He ran a well-organized factory with pupils and assistants who blocked out figures and filled in landscapes based on his sketches. Then Rubens would overpaint here and there, lending his master touch...
Now on display at Washington, D.C.'s National Gallery is its new acquisition, a rare Rubens (above), which Expert Jakob Rosenberg, senior research fellow at the National Gallery, calls "practically the only case where the artist himself has declared this picture to be completely by his own hand."
The Daniel in the Lions' Den is an early Rubens, dating near 1610. It was a popular Biblical subject for Flemish artists. But other representations were pallid compared to Rubens', who, according to Rosenberg, "gets to the heart of it, the drama and significance of the story." Other...
Executed when Rubens was still in his early 30s, the Daniel reflects the influence of Italy, where he had studied for eight years. But Rubens added his own naturalism. In part, this comes from Rubens' good fortune in having live models close at hand to study. There were no...