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  • Rubens - A Man Who Loved Women Who Could Fully Love Men - What We Still Need

    06/28/2023 12:44:46 AM PDT · by Ozguy1945 · 6 replies
    Peter Paul Rubens was born on the 28th June, 1577. “My passion comes from the heavens,” said Rubens, “not from earthly musings.” In Rubens world men could be men and women could be women. There’s desire. There’s the chase. There is fun. Now, in 2023, that human reality gets confused with crime. Our deep connection, in what we traditional adults are and can be, is too often lost. But life is beautiful. God made us to couple and to love.
  • Lost Peter Paul Rubens Painting Will Go To Auction at Sotheby’s with $7.7 M. Estimate

    06/20/2023 3:50:02 PM PDT · by nickcarraway · 9 replies
    ARTnews ^ | June 20, 2023 | Shanti Escalante-De Mattei
    The painting Saint Sebastian Tended By Two Angels by Flemish master Sir Peter Paul Rubens will go to auction at Sotheby’s in London in early July with a high estimate of $7.7 million, according to the auction house. The sale will be the first time the painting has gone to auction since it was confirmed to have been painted by Rubens. When the work was last sold at auction in 2008 — at Ivey-Selkirk, a St. Louis auction house, for $40,000 — it was misattributed as the work of French artist Laurent de la Hyre, according to Artnet News. That...
  • In the Nightmare "The Forsaken: An American Tragedy in Stalin's Russia"

    10/11/2008 5:42:45 PM PDT · by T.L.Sink · 27 replies · 1,291+ views
    National Review magazine ^ | Sept. 29, '08 | Ronald Radosh
    We know that history holds many surprises. One doesn't expect to learn more about the secret history of of the Gulag than we already know from both Solzhenitsyn's "Gulag Acrcipelago" and Anne Applebaum's "Gulag: A history." This feat, however, is exactly what author Tim Tzouliadis has accomplished: the previously unknown story of the thousands of Americans who, during the Depression, sought employment and a better future in the "worker's paradise" built by the Bolsheviks. All kinds of Americans joined the exodus. Some of them were Communists or fellow-travelors but the majority were average Americans - skilled workers promised paid passage,...
  • Getty fattens its Rubens trove

    05/09/2006 6:42:03 AM PDT · by Republicanprofessor · 26 replies · 482+ views
    Los Angeles Times ^ | May 8, 2006 | Christopher Reynolds
    The J. Paul Getty Museum, aiming to deepen its collection of works by Peter Paul Rubens in his prime, has made its first major acquisition since the January arrival of Michael Brand as director. The work, "The Calydonian Boar Hunt," was painted on an oak panel, 23 1/4 by 35 5/8 inches, apparently in 1611 or 1612. "It just shows to me a great master in his absolute peak form — how magical painting can be, that deftness of touch," Brand said. Museum officials, who said they bought the work in late April from a London dealer, declined to disclose...
  • Art Appreciation/Education series II class #4: Art of the Baroque

    01/23/2006 10:42:54 AM PST · by Republicanprofessor · 35 replies · 16,046+ views
    1/23/06 | republicanprofessor
    Finally, what with a snow day and all, I have time to write one more installment of the history of art. Today’s “lesson” is Baroque art. Baroque art dates from 1600-1715 or so. (The dates are different with different media. The end of Baroque art coincides with the death of King Louis XIV in 1715; Baroque music ends with the death of Bach in 1750.) The expansion in Baroque artistic space reflects the expansion of political empires (into the New World) and the expansion of scientific knowledge (the invention of microscopes and telescopes: with space expanding outward and contracting inward)....
  • Paintings stolen in Serbia

    01/09/2006 8:44:42 AM PST · by kronos77 · 4 replies · 171+ views
    Two thieves broke into a museum in a northern Serbian city, snatching four valuable paintings, including works by Rembrandt and Rubens. Police in the city of Novi Sad, 50 kilometres north of the capital of Belgrade, say the masked robbers entered the City Museum early Sunday morning and tied up the guards. Police official Stevan Krstic said the stolen pieces include Rembrandt Van Rijn's Portrait of Father, Peter Paul Rubens' Seneca, a miniature by Italian baroque painter Pier Francesco Mola and another oil painting by an anonymous 16th-century Dutch painter. The City Museum exhibits fine and applied arts from the...