Friday, 3 April 2015

Maida Malikyan shared A. G. Leventis Gallery's photo. 20 hrs · Rubens - Happy Holy Week

Happy Holy Week


"ARTIST OF THE MONTH – APRIL 2015: Peter Paul Rubens Antwerp, 1577 – Antwerp, 1640 Renowned equally as a painter, scholar and diplomat, Peter Paul Rubens was the preeminent Baroque painter of Counter-Reformation altarpieces, and his prolific oeuvre includes mythological and allegorical subjects, history scenes, portraits and landscapes. His style accentuated colour and, primarily, an opulent sensuality. Such were the demands of his international clientele of royalty and nobility that he built, in the house he designed himself in Antwerp, a large studio to accommodate the huge number of assistants and students he needed to fulfil his numerous commissions. After making initial drawings and colour schemes, Rubens would leave his assistants to work on the paintings in his studio and then retouched everything himself in the final stages. Artwork presented: Peter Paul Rubens and Studio Head of Christ, between 1617 and 1637 Oil on panel AGLG 404 © A. G. Leventis Gallery"
A. G. Leventis Gallery
ARTIST OF THE MONTH – APRIL 2015:
Peter Paul Rubens
Antwerp, 1577 – Antwerp, 1640

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