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Peter Paul Rubens
1754-1806
Masterful Flemish
Baroque Painter
Artistically and stylistically influenced the following painters; -Titian, Tintoretto, and Paul Veronese and Michelangelo
Birth - Pieter Pauwel Rubens
was born
to Jan Rubens and Maria Pypelinx on June 28, 1577 in the quaint berg of
Siegen, Westphalia
Education - apprenticed to Adam Van Noort
Cause of death - gout, systemic disease, at the age of 63
According to art historian Clara Erskine Clement "He
was a bright, scholarly boy, and soon showed his love for drawing. When
he began to study art under Adam van Noort he had already a good
education. During the four years he passed with this teacher he learned
thoroughly all the technical part of painting; then, in another four
years under Otto Vænius, he cultivated his taste and the more poetical
elements of his nature, for Vænius was a very learned and elegant man.
In 1598, when twenty-one years old, Rubens was admitted to the guild of
painters in Antwerp. Two years later he went to Venice, and, after
studying the works of Titian and
Paul Veronese
there, he entered the service of the Duke of Mantua, to whom he had been
recommended by the governor of the Netherlands."
Clara Erskine Clement further states "In
painting Rubens was almost a universal genius, for he left a great
variety of works as well as a great number. About one thousand eight
hundred are ascribed to him: doubtless his pupils did much work on
these; but there is something of himself in all. They include
historical, scriptural, and mythological subjects, portraits, animals,
genre pictures, and landscapes. His style is a strange mingling of
northern and southern elements. His handling and his arrangement of his
subjects was like that of the Italians; but his figures, even when he
represented Christ and the holiest men, were like Spanish kings or
German peasants, or somebody whom he had seen."
Peter Paul Rubens Quotations
A painting, if the light is just so, can turn into a luminescent inferno which may reveal for just a moment the soul of the artist . ~ Peter Paul Rubens
My
talent is such that no
undertaking, however vast in
size... has ever surpassed
my courage. ~ Peter
Paul Rubens
I paint a woman's big
rounded buttocks so that I
want to reach out and stroke
the dimpled flesh. ~ Peter
Paul Rubens
Every child has the spirit
of creation. The rubbish of
life often exterminates the
spirit through plague and a
souls own wretchedness. ~
Peter Paul Rubens
I'm just a simple man
standing alone with my old
brushes, asking God for
inspiration.~ Peter Paul
Rubens
My passion comes from the
heavens, not from earthly
musings. ~ Peter Paul Rubens
Painting a young maiden is
similar to cavorting with
great abandon. It is the
finest refreshment. ~ Peter
Paul Rubens
Art Quotes submitted by
Anneken Metternich
More About Rubens
Rubens studio was a
magnet for talent and his
more imaginative students
included Anthony Van Dyck,
Cornelis de Vos and Simon de
Vos
Rubens spoke fluent German
French, Italian, Latin, and
Spanish
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