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Rubens was not an esoteric artist. The world did not veil itself from him in ambiguities. Perhaps no other painter since Titian displayed such an assured possession of his own experience, and beside it, even Picasso's notable lebenslust seems rather cramped. In a sense, Rubens was to the...
Shower of Gold. The French court artists of the late 17th century, like Jean Jouvenet and Charles De La Fosse, all worked under Rubens' shadow. So did François Boucher in the late 18th century, and a further succession of painters, culminating in the 19th with Eugene Delacroix...
An exhibition that would do full justice to Rubens' impact on later art would have to be encyclopedic, and perhaps it will come in 1977 with the 400th anniversary of his birth. But meanwhile, a fascinating exploration of Rubénisme (in Flanders, England and France) is on show...
Rubens' influence was so great partly because his output was so huge. A prodigious and systematic vitality enabled him to complete more than 1,000 oils, in which all the chief subjects of Baroque art-from crucifixions to battle and hunting scenes, from political allegory and mythology to grand...
By the time Rubens had finished amplifying the battle-piece theme in later paintings, the source of hundreds of battle pictures and painted disaster ep ics in the 18th and 19th centuries had been laid, even down to the kind of horses. Rubens' standard horse, a prancing, thick-barrelled...