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.
- Mary Magdalene, looking right at you and NOT very penitent. By Salomon de Bray of Haarlem, d. OTD 1664.
- 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.
- Stoner David waiting to get Goliath. Will be easy! By Salomon de Bray, 1636.
- 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.
