Peter Paul Rubens

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RUBENS

Peter Paul Rubens (1577-1640): born on German soil, of Flemish parents, and moves to Antwerp, a city that will become his true homeland; in the great port of Flanders his home, his tomb and some of his most personal works it is still preserved. In the Baroque Rubens shines with special vitality and without hindrance. His constant travels as a diplomat, for Spain and Italy, give your painting a classicist tone, even on issues, for example, his insistence on translating mythology.

 In Rubens, both the Church and the state they found a supremely equipped to meet their demands for decoration and large-scale glorification artist. He broke decisively with the northern tradition of works of reduced proportions; hers showed his contemporaries the immense possibilities of vigorously naturalistic art.

 Rubens's style could be summed up in three basic aspects: color, movement and form thick. The range of colors used, the looseness of brushwork and use the paddle acquire a few times achieved intensity. The compositions acquire an extraordinary dynamism; tense muscles, strong diagonals, trees writhe like branches, undulating floors, vertical, horizontal and statically seem distant from their fabrics. Finally his thick women show their

Tilt the round figure. The rapid increase in weight of his second wife, Helena Fourment, is proof that fat was an anatomically ideal for the painter.

  The work bequeathed by Rubens is huge, although it is now part of it attributed to his workshop. In the mythological works is revealed as the great interpreter of pagan fable, with a milanguelesca conception of male nude and an obvious admiration for Titian in the conception of the female nude: The Three Graces, nymphs pursued by satyrs, The Judgment of Paris, highlight the contrast between the bronzed muscles of satyrs and nymphs pearly skin.