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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
#BookSky💙📚
#Books
My happy place.
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Dr. Peter Paul Rubens @peterpaulrubens.bsky.social · 21m
2/2 No side eye has ever been so killing.
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Dr. Peter Paul Rubens @peterpaulrubens.bsky.social · 50m
Women messing with men's heads du jour: sly & sexy Judith happy with her prize. 1570, by Jan Massys. Today is his day
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Dr. Peter Paul Rubens @peterpaulrubens.bsky.social · 1h
2/2 Will take your last cent and worse: Another tax collector by Jan Massys. Fear!
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Dr. Peter Paul Rubens @peterpaulrubens.bsky.social · 2h
For more news of People Nobody Likes, here's the tax-collector as painted by Jan Massys. In my day you could also pay taxes in chickens and eggs.
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Dr. Peter Paul Rubens @peterpaulrubens.bsky.social · 3h
2/2 Susanna's pals run away as creepy Elders emerge from the bushes to harass her. Some friends they were! As depicted by Jan Massys, whose day is today.
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Dr. Peter Paul Rubens @peterpaulrubens.bsky.social · 3h
Messenger just arrived for Bathsheba & everybody is perfectly delighted at the news. Jan Massys, 1562, sure of a happy ending.
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Dr. Peter Paul Rubens @peterpaulrubens.bsky.social · 6h
2/2 Another jolly nudie, this one near Antwerp, from Jan Massys.
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Dr. Peter Paul Rubens @peterpaulrubens.bsky.social · 6h
Venus of Cythera, inviting you into her enchanting garden near Genoa in 1562. By Jan Massys. Bluesky, give this nudie a nice label!
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Dr. Peter Paul Rubens @peterpaulrubens.bsky.social · 7h
2/2 There's no fool like an old fool! Surely not possible that gorgeous young supermodel-type only loves grotesque billionaire for his money? Jan Massys, say it ain't so! 1566.
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Dr. Peter Paul Rubens @peterpaulrubens.bsky.social · 7h
The world feeds many fools: never more true than today! Here wittily done as a rebus & illustration by Jan Massys, whose day is today.
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Dr. Peter Paul Rubens @peterpaulrubens.bsky.social · 10h
2/2 Tormented men of the New Testament #2: John on Patmos, 1563, by Jan Massys.
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Dr. Peter Paul Rubens @peterpaulrubens.bsky.social · 10h
Died (alas!) on this day in 1575, Jan Massys of Antwerp. Here, a Holy Family w/ problematic dynamic: Dad is just not part of the love!
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Dr. Peter Paul Rubens @peterpaulrubens.bsky.social · 11h
2/2 Teaser: whose parrot?
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Dr. Peter Paul Rubens @peterpaulrubens.bsky.social · 11h
Teaser: whose distant city?
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Dr. Peter Paul Rubens @peterpaulrubens.bsky.social · 21h
Madonna w her almost impossibly cute child before a rather proto-Leonardo landscape. By Fra Filippo Lippi, whose day was today.
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Dr. Peter Paul Rubens @peterpaulrubens.bsky.social · 22h
Baby J is already completely bored with all the mystic stuff and the adoration. Bad news, Baby, it's not going to get any better! By Filippo Lippi, 1459.
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Dr. Peter Paul Rubens @peterpaulrubens.bsky.social · 22h
2/2 Such a perfect profile on this far less enigmatic woman painted by Filippo Lippi, whose day is today.
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Dr. Peter Paul Rubens @peterpaulrubens.bsky.social · 1d
Filippo Lippi's wonderfully strange double portrait, 1440. He's not looking at her but into the empty space behind her. Her sleeve spells Faithful - but to whom? Great enigmas on Lippi's day.
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Dr. Peter Paul Rubens @peterpaulrubens.bsky.social · 1d
2/2 Calm, simple Annunciation from the 1440s by Filippo Lippi, whose day is today.
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Dr. Peter Paul Rubens @peterpaulrubens.bsky.social · 1d
A marvelous Annunciation from 1440 by Filippo Lippi, who d. OTD in 1469. Wish I could say that frame was original but no, these were the wings of an altarpiece. Still look great!
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Dr. Peter Paul Rubens @peterpaulrubens.bsky.social · 1d
2/2 Saint Mamas in prison, visited by ill-intentioned lions. Predella panel from the Pistoia Trinity Altarpiece by Fra Filippo Lippi.
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Dr. Peter Paul Rubens @peterpaulrubens.bsky.social · 1d
Saint Jerome removes a thorn from the paw of a very heraldic lion, in an incredibly bleak landscape (although there are neighbors!). From the predella of the Trinity Altarpiece, 1460, by Filippo Lippi.
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Dr. Peter Paul Rubens @peterpaulrubens.bsky.social · 1d
3/3 Another amazing tondo by Fra Filippo Lippi: Madonna & Child with Scenes from the Life of Saint Anne. Giving grandparents their due!
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Dr. Peter Paul Rubens @peterpaulrubens.bsky.social · 1d
2/2 Look closely and you can see that the king in red was looking toward Baby J. Then Filippo Lippi changed the king’s mind. Having a chat with King #3 now!.
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Dr. Peter Paul Rubens @peterpaulrubens.bsky.social · 1d
Fra Filippo Lippi & Fra Angelico together produce a marvelous Adoration of the Magi in c. 1450.
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