Peter Paul Rubens

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PETER PAUL RUBENS: 1577—1640
The great seventeenth-century Flemish painter Peter Paul Rubens is known throughout the world. The importance of his work for the development of European culture is generally recognized. The perception of life ihat he revealed in his pictures is so fresh and vivid, fundamental humán values are affirmed in them with such force that we look on Rubens9 paintings as a living aesthetic phenomenon of our own time as well.
In the course of the three centuries which have elapsed since the death of Rubens his artistic legacy, while not losing its immediate aesthetic value, has been varionsly interpreted. The dominant aesthetic outlook has never been able to ignore his influence, but at each specific historical juncture it has sought to channel this influence in the direction it wishes.
Rubens the man and his art are far more complex than was appreciated before. We now have an incomparably wider view of the artisfs capabilities, and see a more varied rangé of... Tovább

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PETER PAUL RUBENS: 1577—1640
The great seventeenth-century Flemish painter Peter Paul Rubens is known throughout the world. The importance of his work for the development of European culture is generally recognized. The perception of life ihat he revealed in his pictures is so fresh and vivid, fundamental humán values are affirmed in them with such force that we look on Rubens9 paintings as a living aesthetic phenomenon of our own time as well.
In the course of the three centuries which have elapsed since the death of Rubens his artistic legacy, while not losing its immediate aesthetic value, has been varionsly interpreted. The dominant aesthetic outlook has never been able to ignore his influence, but at each specific historical juncture it has sought to channel this influence in the direction it wishes.
Rubens the man and his art are far more complex than was appreciated before. We now have an incomparably wider view of the artisfs capabilities, and see a more varied rangé of sources from wh ich he drew inspiration and the variety of his artistic tastes.
At times the decisive impulse in the perception and interpretation of the artist's legacy has been provided by those features which people desired to see in his works, or those they feared to find there. Rubens9 creative activities were so intertwined with the world he lived in that the detachment necessary for an overall assessment of his role and importance was not possible during his lifetime.
MARIA VARS HA VSKA YA Vissza