The master of Flemish baroque
By bringing the nascent baroque style from Italy to Antwerp,
Peter Paul Rubens radically renewed Flemish art of the seventeenth
century. With his dynamic and sometimes frankly vertiginous pictorial
representations that display a powerful imagination and at the
same time an accurate realism, he quickly acquired international
fame. He executed numerous artistic commissions not only for
the church and for private citizens, but also for the archdukes
Albert and Isabella, the Spanish kings Philip III and Philip
IV, and the royal houses of England and France. Today, Rubens
is counted among the greatest artists in history.
The
life of Peter Paul Rubens |
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Master pieces of Rubens in the Cathedral
The
raising of the cross (1609-1610)
The
resurrection of Christ (1611-1612)
The
descent from the cross (1611-1614)
The
assumption of the Virgin (1625-1626)
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