Lecture 32: Peter Paul Rubens
Henry IV Receiving the Portrait of Marie de’Medici, 1622–25, oil on
canvas, 12’ 11” x 9’ 8” (3.94 x 2.95 m), from the Medici Cycle, Musée
du Louvre, Paris, France.
Landscape with Chateau of Steen, 1636, oil on panel, 4’ 3 ½” x 7’ 6 ¼”
(131.2 x 229.2 cm), National Gallery, London, Great Britain.
Landscape with Philemon and Baucis (Landscape with Thunderstorm),
c. 1620, oil on canvas, 6’ 10 ¼” x 4’ 10” (146 x 208.5 cm),
Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna, Austria.
Marie de’Medici Landing in Marseilles, 1622–25, oil on canvas,
12’ 11” x 9’ 8” (3.94 x 2.95 m), from the Medici Cycle, Musée du
Louvre, Paris, France.
Raising of the Cross, 1609–10, oil on canvas, 15’ 1” x 11’ 2”
(4.6 x 3.4 m), Antwerp Cathedral, Antwerp, Belgium.
Rubens with His First Wife, Isabella Brandt, c. 1609, oil on canvas,
5’ 10” x 4’ 5 ¾” (178 x 136.5 cm), Alte Pinakothek, Munich, Germany.
St. Ildefonso Altarpiece, 1630–32, oil on panel, center panel:
11’ 6 ½” x 7’ 9” (352 x 236 cm), each wing: 11’ 6 ½” x 3’ 7”
(352 x 109 cm), Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna, Austria.
Anthony van Dyck:
Charles I of England, c. 1635, oil on canvas, 8’ 8 ¾” x 6’ 9 ½” (2.66 x
2.07 m), Musée du Louvre, Paris, France.Belkin, Rubens.
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