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Rubens, Peter Paul (1577-1640), Flemish painter
on canvas, considered the most important of the 17th century,
whose style came to define the animated, exuberantly sensuous
aspects of baroque painting on canvas. Combining the bold
brushwork, luminous color, and shimmering light of the Venetian
school with the vigor of the art of Michelangelo and the formal
dynamism of Hellenistic sculpture, Rubens created a vibrant
style on canvas, with an energy that emanates from tensions
between the intellectual and the emotional, the classical
and the romantic.
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