The Virgin and Child with Sts. Elizabeth and John the Baptist
Oil
WallArt
Baroque
1634
Early Modern
1395.0 x 1800.0 cm
Walker Art Gallery
Werkstatt Von Peter Paul Rubens (? – ?)
Peter Paul Rubens (1577-1640) war ein Meister des flämischen Barock, bekannt für dynamische Kompositionen, satte Farben und sinnliche Darstellungen von Mythologie, Religion und Geschichte. Seine Werkstatt prägte die europäische Kunst.
Walker Art Gallery (Liverpool, Vereinigtes Königreich)
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Rubens painted this devotional image when he was at the peak of his artistic, diplomatic and domestic career: elected chief of Antwerp’s painters, recently knighted by Britain’s Charles I and Spain’s Philip IV and happily remarried. Rubens originally included a figure of St Joseph, hunched next to the column behind Christ’s head, but painted it out in order to focus attention on the Virgin’s head. Antwerp was renowned for its cult of Mary and Rubens was a particularly devout follower. The change heightened the painting’s message of human and divine love conveyed through a continuous movement of gestures and glances between the Virgin, St Elizabeth and their respective sons. St John’s lamb, a symbol of Christ’s future sacrifice, looks out at us and encourages our thought and contemplation of the image and its message.
Über dieses Kunstwerk
- Titel: The Virgin and Child with Sts. Elizabeth and John the Baptist
- Künstler: Werkstatt Von Peter Paul Rubens
- Jahr: 1634
- Originalmaße: 1395.0 x 1800.0 cm
- Format: Portrait
- Urheberrechtlicher Status: Urheberrechtlich geschützt
- Ausstellung/Standort: Walker Art Gallery
- Medium: Oil
- Technik: WallArt
- Kontext des Korpus: peak of artistic career , cult of mary