Dr. Peter Paul Rubens
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.
- Nativity, 1434, including the Doubting Midwife and her accursed withered hand! Wonderful piece of early Netherlandish painting. By Jacques Daret, whose day is today.
- Baby J not so sure about being presented, even though Temple is so architecturally cool & well decorated. Great scene from 1435 by Jacques Daret. This is his (half) day.
- Young woman in profile. Beautiful work from 1636 by Salomon de Bray, who died (alas!) on this day in 1664.
- Tiny twins! Clara & Albert de Bray, painted in 1646 by proud uncle Salomon de Bray. Today is his day.
- Teaser: whose flower?
- Unhand me, fool! Athena spurns the advances of Hephaestus in totally A+ painting by Paris Bordone, born on this day in 1500.
- Two men playing chess on the terrace of a country palace, 1540. Wonderful renaissance friendship portrait by Paris Bordone, born on this day in 1500.
- Really terrific Saint George coming in for coup de grace, 1530. Painted by Paris Bordone who was born on this day in 1500.
- From Paris Bordone on his birthday: Venus and Mars in a gorgeous landscape, with Vulcan performing an interpretive dance about snaring them.
- Mary, with dog, interrupted from reading by v. agitated flying angel. Dog, not liking this, hides behind her lectern. Annunciation as perspective demonstration, 1555, by Paris Bordone, born OTD 1500.
