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Dr. Peter Paul Rubens
@peterpaulrubens.bsky.social
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All-around genius working for peace, beauty, and intelligent thought. IRL: professor of art history. Occasionally write things about Rubens. Also Dutch art, the Bruegel family, and Elizabethan visual culture. Reader of many novels. DC & Amsterdam.
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Dr. Peter Paul Rubens @peterpaulrubens.bsky.social · Jan 16
#BookSky💙📚
#Books
My happy place.
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Dr. Peter Paul Rubens @peterpaulrubens.bsky.social · 34m
Johann Frederick of Saxony, aka the Magnanimous, painted in 1509 at age 6 in totally fab outfit (especially the hat!) by Lucas Cranach the Elder. Whose day is today.
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Dr. Peter Paul Rubens @peterpaulrubens.bsky.social · 3h
2/2 Also supremely well dressed w/ truly extravagant slashing but rather odd headgear: Duke Henry the Pious, plus his quite fierce dog. Painted by Lucas Cranach.
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Dr. Peter Paul Rubens @peterpaulrubens.bsky.social · 3h
Duchess Katharina von Mecklenburg, in v. fine outfit and with A+ little dog, in 1514. Painted by Lucas Cranach the Elder, whose day is today.
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Dr. Peter Paul Rubens @peterpaulrubens.bsky.social · 4h
3/3 Please leave me alone already, I’m dying: Martin Luther on his deathbed, painted by Lucas Cranach the Elder, whose day is today.
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Dr. Peter Paul Rubens @peterpaulrubens.bsky.social · 4h
2/2 Martin Luther. Painted in 1532 by his admirer, the painter Lucas Cranach. Today is Cranach’s day.
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Dr. Peter Paul Rubens @peterpaulrubens.bsky.social · 5h
Died (alas!) on this day in 1553, Lucas Cranach the Elder, painter & printmaker of the Reformation in Germany. Here by his son Lucas the Younger, at age 77.
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Dr. Peter Paul Rubens @peterpaulrubens.bsky.social · 6h
Teaser: whose dog?
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Dr. Peter Paul Rubens @peterpaulrubens.bsky.social · 16h
Hunting tower at Chatsworth, from which Bess of Hardwick & her guests could view the hunt. Designed by Robert Smythson in the 1580s. Today has been his day.
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Dr. Peter Paul Rubens @peterpaulrubens.bsky.social · 16h
Robert Smythson in Lincolnshire: the beautiful, simple symmetry of Doddington Hall, 1595. Lovely, less overwhelming than a lot of Smythson's work. It's his day.
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Dr. Peter Paul Rubens @peterpaulrubens.bsky.social · 19h
2/2 Front of Burton Agnes Hall. But where is the door Hidden! (Hint you can kind of see it in the previous pic). Elizabethan architect Robert Smythson, playing with your brain. Today is his day.
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Dr. Peter Paul Rubens @peterpaulrubens.bsky.social · 19h
Burton Agnes Hall, Yorkshire. Begun in 1601, after a design by the great (and first!) English architect Robert Smythson. Today is his day.
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Dr. Peter Paul Rubens @peterpaulrubens.bsky.social · 20h
2/2 The roofscape of Smythson's Longleat, as painted by Robert Tilleard. It really is inspiring!
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Dr. Peter Paul Rubens @peterpaulrubens.bsky.social · 20h
Scale model of Longleat lets you see how the current house is wrapped around an older one. And the roofscape! So amazing. By Robert Smythson, 1570s.
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Dr. Peter Paul Rubens @peterpaulrubens.bsky.social · 22h
3/3 Roofline detailing from Longleat is not unlike garden portico at my own home! Great minds think alike. By Robert Smythson.
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Dr. Peter Paul Rubens @peterpaulrubens.bsky.social · 22h
2/2 Longleat looks so flat from the front (compared to other Smythson houses) but look from an angle and it's full of texture.
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Dr. Peter Paul Rubens @peterpaulrubens.bsky.social · 22h
Died, alas, on this day 1614, the great English architect (or surveyor, they said then) Robert Smythson. Here, an early masterpiece: Longleat.
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Dr. Peter Paul Rubens @peterpaulrubens.bsky.social · 23h
3/3 Hardwick Hall seen from the ruins of the old hall. Bess used the old hall to house her servants after Smythson built her new house. Handy!
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Dr. Peter Paul Rubens @peterpaulrubens.bsky.social · 23h
2/2 ”Hardwick Hall, more glass than wall.” A symphony of reflections, designed for Bess of Hardwick by Robert Smythson. It’s his day today.
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Dr. Peter Paul Rubens @peterpaulrubens.bsky.social · 1d
Hardwick Hall, a masterpiece of Elizabethan symmetry designed by Robert Smythson, whose day is today.
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Dr. Peter Paul Rubens @peterpaulrubens.bsky.social · 1d
5/5 The full, mad glory of Wollaton Hall as painted a century later by Jan Siberechts.
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Dr. Peter Paul Rubens @peterpaulrubens.bsky.social · 1d
4/4 More fantastic architectural/sculptural detailing from Wollaton. Strapwork +classiscim! Courtesy of Robert Smythson, whose day is today.
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Dr. Peter Paul Rubens @peterpaulrubens.bsky.social · 1d
3/3 Corner towers at Wollaton -- amazing spaces that project (with their inhabitants) into the world beyond the house. Robert Smythson, what an architectural imagination!
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Dr. Peter Paul Rubens @peterpaulrubens.bsky.social · 1d
Building a cathedral is not the same as designing a house.
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Dr. Peter Paul Rubens @peterpaulrubens.bsky.social · 1d
2/2 From an angle, the facade of marvelous Wollaton shifts, folds, turns. Sculpture in architectural form by stone-mason turned architect Robert Smythson.
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Dr. Peter Paul Rubens @peterpaulrubens.bsky.social · 1d
On this day in 1614 the first great British architect, Robert Smythson, died at Wollaton Hall which he had designed.
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