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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 · 19m
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 · 54m
Building a cathedral is not the same as designing a house.
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Dr. Peter Paul Rubens @peterpaulrubens.bsky.social · 55m
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 · 2h
On this day in 1614 the first great British architect, Robert Smythson, died at Wollaton Hall which he had designed.
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Dr. Peter Paul Rubens @peterpaulrubens.bsky.social · 2h
Teaser: where’s Aristotle?
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Dr. Peter Paul Rubens @peterpaulrubens.bsky.social · 12h
2/2 Looking right at you from her lovely niche: Susanna Temple, later Lady Lister. Painted in 1620 by Cornelis Johnson.
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Dr. Peter Paul Rubens @peterpaulrubens.bsky.social · 12h
Fantastic portrait of a 50-year-old woman with excellent lace, painted in 1619 by Cornelis Johnson. It's been his day.
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Dr. Peter Paul Rubens @peterpaulrubens.bsky.social · 13h
2/2 Big hair in 1649: William Hamilton & John Maitland, as painted by Cornelius Johnson.
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Dr. Peter Paul Rubens @peterpaulrubens.bsky.social · 13h
Portrait of Sir Thomas Lucy and his family, also with dog and hawk. Supposedly after Cornelius Johnson (b. OTD 1593) but wonderful no matter who painted it.
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Dr. Peter Paul Rubens @peterpaulrubens.bsky.social · 14h
Doctor John Bathhurst in his library in 1637, painted by Cornelis Johnson. Today is his day.
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Dr. Peter Paul Rubens @peterpaulrubens.bsky.social · 15h
Marvelously simple & elegant portrait of a young woman in profile, 1465, by Alesso Baldovinetti. Today is his birthday too.
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Dr. Peter Paul Rubens @peterpaulrubens.bsky.social · 16h
Also born on this day, but in 1425, Alesso Baldovinetti, who painted this beautiful Annunciation in 1457.
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Dr. Peter Paul Rubens @peterpaulrubens.bsky.social · 17h
2/2 Young man with very serious love lock in 1632, painted by Cornelis Johnson, whose day is today.
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Dr. Peter Paul Rubens @peterpaulrubens.bsky.social · 18h
Perfect image of an English aristocrat: Lucius, 2nd Viscount Falkland, painted in the 1630s by Cornelius Johnson.
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Dr. Peter Paul Rubens @peterpaulrubens.bsky.social · 18h
2/2 Portrait of a woman, perhaps the Countess of Arundel, by Cornelius Johnson. It's his day today.
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Dr. Peter Paul Rubens @peterpaulrubens.bsky.social · 19h
Woman in blue. Distracted for a moment. Painted in 1639 by Cornelis Johnson, who was born on this day in 1593.
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Dr. Peter Paul Rubens @peterpaulrubens.bsky.social · 21h
3/3 Not a Capel. Just a boy in pink, then considered a good manly colour. Painted by Dutch/British painter Cornelius Johnson who was born OTD in 1593.
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Dr. Peter Paul Rubens @peterpaulrubens.bsky.social · 21h
2/2 Solo pic of little Henry Capel later Baron Capel of Tewkesbury. Super cute! Never executed. Loved flowers (really -- later founded botanical gardens at Kew).
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Dr. Peter Paul Rubens @peterpaulrubens.bsky.social · 1d
Baron Capel & his family, 1641. A royalist, he would be executed 8 years later. Sad! Painted by Cornelius Johnson whose day is today.
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Dr. Peter Paul Rubens @peterpaulrubens.bsky.social · 1d
2/2 Sister with pearls & roses, and brother with dog to counterbalance fact that he's still in skirts. Painted in 1648 by Cornelis Johnson. Today will be his day.
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Dr. Peter Paul Rubens @peterpaulrubens.bsky.social · 1d
Born on this day in 1593, in London but to Dutch parents, Cornelis Johnson. Painter of portraits including, here, his own.
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Dr. Peter Paul Rubens @peterpaulrubens.bsky.social · 1d
2/2 Teaser: whose hawk?
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Dr. Peter Paul Rubens @peterpaulrubens.bsky.social · 1d
Teaser: whose garden?
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Dr. Peter Paul Rubens @peterpaulrubens.bsky.social · 1d
Cold day! Woman warming her hands over a pot of coals, painted by Caesar van Everdingen, 1646.
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Dr. Peter Paul Rubens @peterpaulrubens.bsky.social · 1d
Jupiter, in not-very-succesful disguise as Diana, seduces perhaps visually impaired nymph Callisto. Painted in 1655 by Caesar van Everdingen. his day is today.
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