Arte - Rubens A Life in Europe (2018)


Arte - Rubens A Life in Europe (2018)

Peter Paul Rubens (1577–1640) is an artistic giant and already a star during his lifetime. From Antwerp, he conquered Western Europe with his art in an era marked by religious wars and intolerance. Today, he is often stereotyped as a painter of fat women, but Rubens' repertoire is almost inexhaustible. Rubens paints large, heavy figures in full motion and has an unbridled imagination. His captivating form of expression characterizes a completely new style that would later be called Baroque. As a young painter, he lived and worked in Italy for eight years. The extent to which this stay inspired him is revealed by comparing Rubens' art with paintings and sculptures from antiquity and the Renaissance. Rubens is brilliant at using the works of other artists for his own work. He picks out individual elements and scenes, develops them further and changes them. This results in his very own, fascinating compositions, crowned with an outstanding painting technique. Antwerp is Rubens's center of life. This is where he founded his workshop. Its production methods resemble those of a modern company and make the unimaginably wide expansion of his art and its content possible. Rubens proved to be a skilled entrepreneur and brilliant networker. In addition to Italy, he traveled to Spain, England, France and Germany and had friends, confidants and clients in all of these countries. Almost all art lovers in Europe owned one or more of his works at the time. He was not only valued as a painter; he was an intellectual who everyone liked to surround themselves with. He also used his popularity to get involved politically. Through his diplomatic talks he managed to bring about peace between Spain and England. He was knighted by the English King Charles I for this. The documentary deals with the phenomenon of Peter Paul Rubens. How did he become who he was? Who and what shaped and inspired him? The film shows how Rubens managed to become the superstar of Western Europe during his lifetime.

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Sir Peter Paul Rubens ( ROO-bənz; Dutch: [ˈpeːtər pʌul ˈrybəns]; 28 June 1577 – 30 May 1640) was a Flemish artist and diplomat. He is considered the most influential artist of the Flemish Baroque tradition. Rubens' highly charged compositions reference erudite aspects of classical and Christian history. His unique and immensely popular Baroque style emphasised movement, colour, and sensuality, which followed the immediate, dramatic artistic style promoted in the Counter-Reformation. Rubens was a painter producing altarpieces, portraits, landscapes, and history paintings of mythological and allegorical subjects. He was also a prolific designer of cartoons for the Flemish tapestry workshops and of frontispieces for the publishers in Antwerp.

Rubens was born and raised in the Holy Roman Empire (modern-day Germany) to parents who were refugees from Antwerp in the Duchy of Brabant in the Southern Netherlands (modern-day Belgium) and moved to Antwerp at about 12. In addition to running a large workshop in Antwerp that produced paintings popular with nobility and art collectors throughout Europe, Rubens was a classically educated humanist scholar and diplomat who was knighted by both Philip IV of Spain and Charles I of England. Rubens was a prolific artist. The catalogue of his works by Michael Jaffé lists 1,403 pieces, excluding numerous copies made in his workshop.


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