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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

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Dr. Peter Paul Rubens @peterpaulrubens.bsky.social · 5h

Saint Michael's Tavern, by my colleague Pieter Brueghel the Younger. Excellent wall decoration -- I'd stop in for a drink.

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Dr. Peter Paul Rubens @peterpaulrubens.bsky.social · 6h

Census at Bethlehem occurring in a Flemish village in winter, as painted by my colleague Pieter Brueghel the Younger (d. OTD 1632) after his famous father's design.

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Dr. Peter Paul Rubens @peterpaulrubens.bsky.social · 7h

2/2 Skating in winter, by Pieter Brueghel the Younger, who never let his father’s designs go to waste!

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Dr. Peter Paul Rubens @peterpaulrubens.bsky.social · 7h

Staggering home from the inn on a winter evening. Hope you’re doing better than this fellow by Pieter Brueghel the Younger!

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Dr. Peter Paul Rubens @peterpaulrubens.bsky.social · 8h

2/2 Great wall almanac in this detail from another version. There are always lots of versions with Pieter Brueghel the Younger.

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Dr. Peter Paul Rubens @peterpaulrubens.bsky.social · 8h

Never in history has this been a happy subject: payment due at tax collector's office, 1615. At least then you could pay in chickens! By Pieter Brueghel the Younger. It's his day.

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Dr. Peter Paul Rubens @peterpaulrubens.bsky.social · 8h

2/2 It's a laugh a minute at the egg dance, as painted by Pieter Brueghel the Younger.

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Dr. Peter Paul Rubens @peterpaulrubens.bsky.social · 10h

Whee-ha! Dancing aroud the maypole with the peasants and Pieter Brueghel the Younger. It's his day.

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Dr. Peter Paul Rubens @peterpaulrubens.bsky.social · 11h

2/2 Drunkard on the egg, fool in the egg, Pieter Brueghel’s day.

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Dr. Peter Paul Rubens @peterpaulrubens.bsky.social · 12h

Flatterers up the *ss of the rich man. Some things never change! Here in 1592 by Pieter Brueghel the Younger, whose day is today.

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Dr. Peter Paul Rubens @peterpaulrubens.bsky.social · 12h

The Triumph of Death, but of course paintings in this era did not have titles.

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Dr. Peter Paul Rubens @peterpaulrubens.bsky.social · 12h

2/2 A landscape of death, from the background of Pieter's Dad's original painting. Terrifying apocalypse of a burning planet.

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Dr. Peter Paul Rubens @peterpaulrubens.bsky.social · 13h

The world is engulfed by chaos and horror as the armies of Death arrive to incorporate the Living into their band. Perfect allegory for today from Pieter Brueghel the Younger.

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Dr. Peter Paul Rubens @peterpaulrubens.bsky.social · 14h

2/2 The original. By Dad. Truly a great painting! Pieter the Younger made up his version from the workshop drawings. And today is his birthday.

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Dr. Peter Paul Rubens @peterpaulrubens.bsky.social · 15h

Rollicking peasant wedding dance to liven up your autumn day by my colleague Pieter Brueghel the Younger, whose day is today. Don’t confuse this with his father’s painting!

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Dr. Peter Paul Rubens @peterpaulrubens.bsky.social · 16h

2/2 Pitiless soldiers on a mission to slaughter. Mothers weep. From Massacre of the Innocents by Pieter Brueghel the Younger, after his father. Because why let a great composition go to waste?

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Dr. Peter Paul Rubens @peterpaulrubens.bsky.social · 17h

A cold, cruel painting, yet so ordinary: Massacre of the Innocents by Pieter Brueghel the Younger whose day is today after his father Pieter the Great.

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Dr. Peter Paul Rubens @peterpaulrubens.bsky.social · 17h

2/2 1Preaching of John the Baptist to a very international crowd. By Pieter Brueghel the Younger (whose day is today) after his father's composition. He did this a lot, & people loved the results!

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Dr. Peter Paul Rubens @peterpaulrubens.bsky.social · 18h

Born (perhaps) on this day in 1564, in Brussels Pieter Brueghel the Younger. Older son of the great Pieter. Made a good career painting copies of dad’s work for eager market.

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Dr. Peter Paul Rubens @peterpaulrubens.bsky.social · 1d

Virgin: adoring. Baby J: hold up with this adoring stuff and get me some clothing! Lunch would be nice too. By Jean Hay, whose day has been today.

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Dr. Peter Paul Rubens @peterpaulrubens.bsky.social · 1d

2/2 Charles II of Bourbon, looking somewhat less normal and all erminey, also painted by Jean Hey.

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Dr. Peter Paul Rubens @peterpaulrubens.bsky.social · 1d

Charles Orlando, Dauphin of France, looking amazingly like a normal child in 1494. As painted by Jean Hey, whose day was today.

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Dr. Peter Paul Rubens @peterpaulrubens.bsky.social · 1d

3/3 Anne, with daughter Suzanne, who looks resentful at that lesson about humility. Rightly so! Plus dad, who looks more humble. Sort of.

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2/2 Anne de Beaujeu from the Moulins Triptych. Most powerful women in Europe, but told her daughter that being humble & courteous mattered most. A philosophy not apparent in her portrayal by Jean Hey.

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Dr. Peter Paul Rubens @peterpaulrubens.bsky.social · 1d

Splendid triptych for the cathedral in Moulins, 1498, by Jean Hey. Also known (because of this work) as the Master of Moulins. Today is his day.

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