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- #121
- Posted: 05/27/2022 00:03
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Peter Paul Rubens (1577 - 1640)
Best Works:
7.5/10: The Adoration of the Magi (1609; revised 1629)
6.9/10: Prometheus Bound (circa 1612)
7.2/10: The Massacre of the Innocents (circa 1612) [Art Gallery of Ontario Version]
7.2/10: The Descent from the Cross Triptych (1614) [Cathedral of Our Lady, Antwerp, Belgium Version]
7.2/10: The Great Last Judgment (1617)
6.9/10: The Rape of the Daughters of Leucippus (1618)
7.2/10: Fall of the Damned (1620)
The Adoration of the Magi - Peter Paul Rubens (1609; revised 1629)
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FULL VIEW - ZOOM FUNCTION - HIGHEST QUALITY: https://www.museodelprado.es/en/the-col...a017e2fd17
FULL VIEW - LARGE (Original Painting?): https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/...ado%29.jpg
IMAGE - PRADO MUSEUM: https://www.imago-images.com/bild/st/0101434288/w.jpg
Prometheus Bound - Peter Paul Rubens (circa 1612)
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FULL VIEW - LARGE: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/..._Bound.jpg
FULL VIEW - VERY LARGE - HIGH QUALITY - ZOOM FUNCTION: https://artsandculture.google.com/asset...phAg?hl=en
The Massacre of the Innocents - Peter Paul Rubens (circa 1612) [Art Gallery of Ontario Version]
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FULL VIEW - LARGE: http://artpaintingartist.org/wp-content...s-1612.jpg
IMAGE FOR SCALE - Art Gallery of Ontario, Canada: https://www.traveller.com.au/content/da...948091.jpg
The Descent from the Cross Triptych - Peter Paul Rubens (1614) [Cathedral of Our Lady, Antwerp, Belgium Version]
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FULL VIEW - LARGE: https://i0.wp.com/www.kellybagdanov.com...9933719635
FULL VIEW - VERY LARGE: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/...A20212.jpg
IMAGE FOR SCALE - Cathedral of Our Lady, Antwerp, Belgium: https://www.flickr.com/photos/8405842@N02/4402080543/
The Great Last Judgment - Peter Paul Rubens (1617)
FULL VIEW - VERY LARGE - HIGH QUALITY - ZOOM FUNCTION: https://artsandculture.google.com/asset...gv_Q?hl=en
IMAGE FOR SCALE - Alte Pinakothek Museum, Germany: https://www.christianiconography.info/E...bens2.html
IMAGE FOR SCALE - Alte Pinakothek Museum, Germany: https://www.flickr.com/photos/adavey/50115781946/
NOTE: This is actually the Central Panel only. There are two side panels that were separated from this Altarpiece a long time ago and have remained so to this day. Adoration of the Shepherds (1619) and The Descent of the Holy Spirit (1619), both in the Neuburg State Gallery. For some (very annoying) reason they are very difficult to find proper images of -- almost as if this is not supposed to be widely known: that the work has been separated, is split up in two separate locations, and has not been being seen in its complete form despite the central "Great Last Judgment" panel being among Ruben's most famous ... It's ridiculous that it took "research" just to find out what the two additional side panel paintings were really called. Stupidly, wiki doesn't even tell you the titles on the "Great Last Judgment" page, of all places (it just mentions that there are side panels, incompletely alludes to their titles and then carries on without links or images, as if you wouldn't want to know what they are and wouldn't want to see them!) and then doesn't even have record of them when you go to look for them. This is ridiculous considering Rubens is among the least obscure, most popular painters ever. Why the hell is this data generally pretty hard to come by and not immediately available on any page featuring the super famous Great Last Judgment!?!? Could it be financially motivated (neither of the museums housing its parts separately would want the public to be too aware that they were each featuring an incomplete work of Rubens, perhaps?) Regardless of the reasons, it is very annoying that trying to see the whole work is such a chore, with so little information available, and few images of the side panels, and even those pictures that I've found so far are quite poor.
Adoration of the Shepherds: https://www.schloesser.bayern.de/bilder...ten600.jpg
Both - Neuburg State Gallery: https://abload.de/img/img_3701t6rv.jpg
Both - Neuburg State Gallery: https://neuburg-donau.info/media-web-to...e-im-schlo ss/image-thumb__3088__lightbox/staatsgalerie-neuburg.webp
The Rape of the Daughters of Leucippus - Peter Paul Rubens (1618)
FULL VIEW - LARGE: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/...cippus.jpg
DETAIL: https://www.flickr.com/photos/profzucke.../lightbox/
DETAIL: https://www.flickr.com/photos/profzucke.../lightbox/
DETAIL: https://www.flickr.com/photos/profzucke.../lightbox/
DETAIL: https://www.flickr.com/photos/profzucke.../lightbox/
DETAIL: https://www.flickr.com/photos/profzucke.../lightbox/
DETAIL: https://www.flickr.com/photos/profzucke.../lightbox/
DETAIL: https://www.flickr.com/photos/profzucke.../lightbox/
IMAGE FOR SCALE - Alte Pinakothek, Munich, Germany: https://www.flickr.com/photos/profzucke...m/lightbox
Fall of the Damned - Peter Paul Rubens (1620)
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FULL VIEW - VERY LARGE: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/...ns_063.jpg
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- Posted: 05/27/2022 00:39
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Georges Seurat (1859 - 1891)
Best Works:
7.4/10: Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte (1886)
7.3/10: Circus Sideshow (1888)
Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte - Georges Seurat (1886)
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FULL VIEW - VERY LARGE: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/...C_1884.jpg
IMAGE - ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO MUSEUM:
Misc Notes for future analysis...
-Looking up close at the work and 'procuring' the extreme care and emotional sensation of the stunning technique (just by yourself carefully pouring over it, recognizing the overwhelming time and care applied to each little point, to align and make up fields of converging points and colors, to merge and compose into each figure, etc), one realizes Seurat is symbolically and imbuing in the work, as its very make-up, the same social critique and psychology of the characters and scene, as a moving, empathetic and impressionistic account. That each of them are very carefully maintaining their civility and social status, propped very carefully so as not to disturb or disrupt anything. Yet, looking closely at the scene, apparently might not be all it seems (certain anomalies, such as some characters alluding to prostitution that only appear upper class on the outside to disguise this fact). So it also becomes a very veiled and carefully presented characterizations and scene of society at that time, and how looking closer might reveal more truth than meets the eye. Furthering this metaphor, it is also an astonishing technical display of optical allusion: how the closer you look, the more varied and incongruent and unusual the multitude of colors and exhaustive technical rendering becomes, whereas at a distance they seem to merge fluidly and perfectly into this highly civilized and beautifully rendered and quiet scene; in other words, much "louder" and vibrant and "confused" up close -- all this is symbolic of the psychology and social veneer at play, inner vs what it seems like on the exterior...
-The exhaustive and highly subtle technique and "impressions" of figures (every point is an "impression" of detail and not a "real" detail, every figure and parts of the environment/scene are made up of hundreds/thousands of these and nothing more; they're "impressions" of figures, parts of the environment/scene)... evoke a strong sense or "impression" of time standing still or slowly fading, of stillness and isolation. Along with this, notice that none of the figures are interacting with each other, even when close by. There appears to be one couple in the mid to far background that are embracing but, even here, it appears one-sided (female only), and Seurat's art and the relative faceless-ness of the figures, makes them seem isolated and still. There are a couple other examples of mild or possible interaction but the art itself diffuses it almost entirely.
Circus Sideshow - Georges Seurat (1888)
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FULL VIEW - VERY LARGE - HIGHEST QUALITY - ZOOM FUNCTION: https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/437654
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