Dr. Peter Paul Rubens
@peterpaulrubens.bsky.social
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.
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.
3/3 The painter himself, Jan van Kessel II, leaning from window at side of Spanish garden that he's so splendidly painted. In the shadows but not forgotten!
November 23, 2025 at 7:53 PM
3/3 The painter himself, Jan van Kessel II, leaning from window at side of Spanish garden that he's so splendidly painted. In the shadows but not forgotten!
2/2 The little boys & the dogs, in a Spanish family’s garden painted by Jan van Kessel the Younger.
November 23, 2025 at 6:08 PM
2/2 The little boys & the dogs, in a Spanish family’s garden painted by Jan van Kessel the Younger.
2/2 Dog arriving to chase cat away from the goodies. Sad! By Jan van Kessel the Younger, whose day is today.
November 23, 2025 at 3:52 PM
2/2 Dog arriving to chase cat away from the goodies. Sad! By Jan van Kessel the Younger, whose day is today.
2/2 We're in for a healthy day with Jan van Kessel the Younger. Loved his veggies! No dead game for this painter, and today is his day.
November 23, 2025 at 12:49 PM
2/2 We're in for a healthy day with Jan van Kessel the Younger. Loved his veggies! No dead game for this painter, and today is his day.
2/2 Two more beauties from the 1660s (one of them armed!) by Jan Mytens.
November 22, 2025 at 10:47 PM
2/2 Two more beauties from the 1660s (one of them armed!) by Jan Mytens.
2/2 Maria's page looking extremely askance at her improbable hunting gear. But she meant well!
November 22, 2025 at 9:57 PM
2/2 Maria's page looking extremely askance at her improbable hunting gear. But she meant well!
2/2 Feathers. More important than the crown, in 1633. Charles I, making a fashion statement for Daniel Mytens, whose day is today.
November 22, 2025 at 8:24 PM
2/2 Feathers. More important than the crown, in 1633. Charles I, making a fashion statement for Daniel Mytens, whose day is today.
2/2 James Hamilton, 1st Duke of Hamilton, always a man with fine fashion sense, looking discreetly excellent in grey in 1629. Painted by Daniel Mytens.
November 22, 2025 at 7:02 PM
2/2 James Hamilton, 1st Duke of Hamilton, always a man with fine fashion sense, looking discreetly excellent in grey in 1629. Painted by Daniel Mytens.
2/2 Avid traveler & all-around shopper Alethea Talbot, wife of Earl of Arundel, at their London home w/ paintings gallery. By Daniel Mytens.
November 22, 2025 at 6:16 PM
2/2 Avid traveler & all-around shopper Alethea Talbot, wife of Earl of Arundel, at their London home w/ paintings gallery. By Daniel Mytens.
2/2 The Queen's dwarf, Sir Jeffrey Hudson, in the woods but very civilized in 1629. Positioned so his head just fails to reach the horizon, and painted by Daniel Mytens.
November 22, 2025 at 4:05 PM
2/2 The Queen's dwarf, Sir Jeffrey Hudson, in the woods but very civilized in 1629. Positioned so his head just fails to reach the horizon, and painted by Daniel Mytens.
2/2 Daniel again, drawn in London by fellow expat Anthony van Dyck.
November 22, 2025 at 1:07 PM
2/2 Daniel again, drawn in London by fellow expat Anthony van Dyck.