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... painting . He was able to infuse his own astounding vitality into his religious or mythological paintings , portraits , and landscapes . Rubens was a painter of illimitable resource in invention , and he organized his complex ...
... painting . He was able to infuse his own astounding vitality into his religious or mythological paintings , portraits , and landscapes . Rubens was a painter of illimitable resource in invention , and he organized his complex ...
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... painting . He assimilated Venetian colour , light and loose application of paint first through the works of Tintoretto , then through those of Veronese , long before he could penetrate the inward meaning of Titian's art . His copies ...
... painting . He assimilated Venetian colour , light and loose application of paint first through the works of Tintoretto , then through those of Veronese , long before he could penetrate the inward meaning of Titian's art . His copies ...
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... painted proclamation of success . He discussed painting with Charles I , a great connoisseur of the arts and the only prince to whom Rubens ever vouchsafed a self - portrait at ( c . 1625 ; Windsor Castle ) . The king commissioned him ...
... painted proclamation of success . He discussed painting with Charles I , a great connoisseur of the arts and the only prince to whom Rubens ever vouchsafed a self - portrait at ( c . 1625 ; Windsor Castle ) . The king commissioned him ...
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