Fritz Henle - Rijksmuseum Amsterdam, 1960s. Suzanne Driessen, El juicio final de Rubens
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though i am heavy, there is flight around me
wendell berry, the fall of icarus, f. scott fitzgerald, christophe vacher, hozier, galileo chini, mahmoud darwish (tr. catherine cobham), rubens, akwaeke emezi, alfred schwarzschild
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Rubens - The fall of the damed (detail).
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The Triumph of Rome: The Youthful Emperor Constantine Honoring Rome by Peter Paul Rubens, unused design for a series of tapestries about Constantine commissioned by King Louis XIII of France
Flemish, c. 1622-1623
oil on panel
Mauritshuis, The Hague
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Medusa (c. 1618) by Peter Paul Rubens
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"L'Allégorie de la Vue" de Jan Brueghel et Paul Rubens (circa 1617) présentée à la conférence sur “Les Cabinets de Curiosité ou l'Art de Collectionner Gemmes et Objets Précieux” par Caroline Benzaria - Historienne de l'Art et Professeur - et Paul Paradis - Historien de l'Art et Professeur - de L’École des Arts Joailliers, novembre 2023.
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Diego Velázquez (ES, 1599 - 1660)
Las Hilanderas (The spinners) / The Fable of Arachne (La fábula de Aracne) ca. 1657. Oil on canvas 222,5 × 293 cm. Prado
The x-ray of the canvas reveals the multiple patches used to expand the originally cramped yet ingeniously reversed POV of the theme.
In 1948, art historian Diego Angula produced a convincing argument that the iconography of Las Hilanderas suggests the Fable of Arachne. The helmeted figure in the background is Pallas Athena, and the tapestry visible to the viewer as the Rape of Europa, the subject that Arachne was said to depict.
The tapestry is a copy after Titian's Rape of Europa, also copied by Rubens in 1629, both prized items in the Spanish royal collection.
The reference to Titian and Rubens's copies could be a parallel to Arachne's conviction of being able to surpass goddess Athena. The POV reverse could also be a provocation by setting lay women just in the front layer...
https://www.artble.com/artists/diego_velazquez/paintings/las_hilanderas
https://www.investigart.com/2018/10/16/las-hilanderas-cuando-el-tiempo-y-la-historia-tambien-pintan/
https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_f%C3%A1bula_de_Aracne
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diego_Vel%C3%A1zquez
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Saint George and the Dragon, Peter Paul Rubens, 1606-08
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Peter Paul Rubens - Moses and the Brazen Serpent (ca.1610)
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