THE THREE GRACE BY PETER PAUL RUBENS
Item Number: 489
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Description
- Date of Manufacture: Brand New!
- Dimensions: Size of the print is A3 (11.693 x 16.535).
- Country of Origin: Printed in Lithuania
- Material: True And Full Color Laser Print On Luxurious Photo Quality Paper!
- Description: Peter Paul Rubens (June 28, 1577 - May 30, 1640) was a diplomat best remembered as the most popular and prolific Flemish and European painter of the 17th century. He was the proponent of an exuberant Baroque style which emphasized movement, color, and sensuality.
Rubens was born in Siegen, Westphalia, to a successful Protestant lawyer who had fled Antwerp to escape religious persecution. In 1589, two years after his father's death, Rubens and his mother returned to Antwerp, where he had himself baptized a Catholic. Religion figured prominently in much of his later work. In Antwerp, his mother apprenticed Rubens to leading painters of the time like Adam Van Noort and Otto Venius.
In 1600 he went to Venice, Italy, where he worked as a court painter to the duke of Mantua, Vincenzo I of Gonzaga. He studied ancient Roman art and learned by copying the works of the Italian masters. His mature style was profoundly influenced by Titian.
In 1603 and 1604, he worked as a diplomat in Spain, combining art and diplomacy as he would throughout his career.
Upon the death of his mother in 1608, Rubens returned to Antwerp. A year later he married Isabella Brant, daughter of Jan Brant, a leading Antwerp humanist. He was appointed court painter by Albert and Isabella, the governors of the Low Countries.
He moved in 1610 to the Rubenshuis, a house in Antwerp that he designed for himself and which is now a museum. This house also contained his workshop where he and his apprentices made most of the paintings, his art collection, and his library, which was one of the most extensive in Antwerp. Rubens was a good friend and occasional collaborator of the Moretus family, owners of the large Plantin-Moretus publishing house.
His altarpieces The Raising of the Cross (1610) and The Descent from the Cross (1611-1614) for the Cathedral of Our Lady established Rubens as Flanders' leading painter.
He received numerous commissions from the French court, including a series of allegorical paintings on the life of Marie de' Medici (now in the Louvre). He and his workshop executed many monumental religious paintings, such as the Assumption of the Virgin Mary in the Cathedral ofAntwerp. The young Anthony van Dyck was one of the assistants in Rubens' studio.
In the period between 1621 and 1630, the Spanish Habsburg rulers entrusted Rubens with a number of diplomatic missions. Charles I of England knighted him for his diplomatic efforts to bring about a peace treaty between England and Spain. He was also commissioned to paint the ceiling of the Banqueting House at the Palace of Whitehall.
In 1630, four years after the death of his first wife, the 53-year-old painter married 16-year-old Hkl?ne Fourment. Rubens had three children with Isabella and five with Hkl?ne; his youngest child was born eight months after his death. Hkl?ne's charms recur in later works such as The Garden of Love, The Three Graces and The Judgment of Paris, painted for the Spanish court and now in the Prado.
Rubens died of gout at age 63 and was interred in Saint Jacob's church, Antwerp.
This original work named "The Three Graces" is now held in Prado, Madrid. The size of the original is 87 x 71 1/4 in. (221 x 181 cm), it is painted Oil on wood in 1639-1640!
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