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
Atelier Van Peter Paul Rubens (? – ?)
Peter Paul Rubens (1577-1640) was een Vlaams Barokmeester, beroemd om zijn dynamische composities, rijke kleuren en sensuele weergaven van mythologie, religie en geschiedenis. Zijn invloedrijke atelier vormde de Europese kunst.
Walker Art Gallery (Liverpool, Verenigd Koninkrijk)
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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.
Over dit kunstwerk
- Titel: The Virgin and Child with Sts. Elizabeth and John the Baptist
- Kunstenaar: Atelier Van Peter Paul Rubens
- Jaar: 1634
- Oorspronkelijke afmetingen: 1395.0 x 1800.0 cm
- Formaat: Portrait
- Auteursrechtelijke status: Auteursrechtelijk beschermd
- Te zien op: Walker Art Gallery
- Techniek: Oil
- Type medium: WallArt
- Context corpus: peak of artistic career, cult of mary
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