Peter Paul Rubens 1577 1640

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Peter Paul Rubens (1577 - 1640 )

• His parents left their home in Flanders to move
  to Germany for religious freedom.
• Rubens traveled a lot He visited Italy, Spain,
  England, and lived in Germany and Flanders.
• He was born in Germany and baptised as a
  Protestant.
• When his parents separated, his mother took him
  back to Flanders where he became Catholic.

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Peter Paul Rubens (1577 - 1640 )

• He is considered to be the best Flemish painter
  in the 17th Century
• What can you tell about him in this self
  portrait?

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Peter Paul Rubens (1577 - 1640 )

• He had Dutch and Italian teachers and met artists
  in all of the places he visited and lived.
• How do you think his travel might have impacted
  his work?

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Peter Paul Rubens (1577 - 1640 )

• What do you notice in this self-portrait?
• Is the style similar to other artists we have
  studied or different?
• Flemish painters were very interested in realism,
  making their art look like photographs with lots
  of detail.

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Peter Paul Rubens (1577 - 1640 )

• Rubens was influenced by the Italian Renaissance.
  
• Remember that the Renaissance artists we learned
  about (Giotto and Leonardo Da Vinci) were
  interested in perspective.
• Rubens painted in the Baroque style. Artists in
  the Baroque focused on color, movement, and the
  romantic.

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Peter Paul Rubens (1577 - 1640 )

• Compare these portraits. What similarities do
  you see? What differences?

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Peter Paul Rubens (1577 - 1640 )

• Rubens painted religious paintings, figures from
  mythology, portraits, and landscapes.
• Do you think that this is something that he might
  have seen in real life or imagined?

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Peter Paul Rubens (1577 - 1640 )

• What do you think these pictures are about?
• Are they religious? Portraits? Why do you think
  so?

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Peter Paul Rubens (1577 - 1640 )

• As he got older, Rubens became interested in
  painting landscapes.
• What do you notice in this painting?
• Do you like Rubenss paintings? Why?

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Peter Paul Rubens (1577 - 1640 )

• What do you notice in this painting?