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unusual facts about Rubens


Rubens' tube

The artist Emer O'Brien used Rubens tubes as the basis for the sound sculpture featured in her 2012 exhibition Return to Normal at The Wapping Project in London.


2002 United States Grand Prix

Toward the end, Michael Schumacher, who was leading the race, eased off the throttle at the last moment, attempting to create a "dead heat" between himself and teammate Rubens Barrichello (partially in atonement for the 2002 Austrian Grand Prix fiasco); Schumacher wound up losing the race by 11 thousandths of a second, the second-closest finish in Speedway history, beating out the historic finish of the 1992 Indianapolis 500 between Al Unser Jr. and Scott Goodyear.

Alex Rubens

Alex Rubens is a Writers Guild Award–winning American writer.

Ballymore Eustace

Also nearby is Russborough House, a fine example of Palladian architecture, which houses the Beit art collection, much of which was donated to the state by Sir Alfred Lane Beit, including works by Goya, Vermeer and Rubens.

Balthasar Beschey

Next came Joseph Hendrik Beschey, who was born at Antwerp in 1714; and lastly, Jan François Beschey, who was born in 1717, at Antwerp, where he established himself as a picture dealer, and became celebrated for the copies he made of the works of Rubens, Van Dyck, Teniers, Pijnacker, Moucheron, and other great masters.

Benedictus van Haeften

Haeften commissioned Rubens and De Crayer to decorate the church and the monastery in Affligem.

Buffard

His art-works are at the following museums held at the Hermitage Museum (Lord Warton), Le Louvre (portrait de Charles 1er d'Angleterre / Ruppert de bavière et son frère), and Windsor Castle (Rubens).

Charles Long, 1st Baron Farnborough

He died here on 17 January 1838, leaving to the National Gallery fifteen artworks by Rubens, Vandyck, Canaletto, Teniers, Mola, Cuyp, and others.

Consequences of War

Rubens, although closely allied to Isabella and the Spanish Netherlands, often had occasion to travel and visit foreign monarchs in his position as a court painter.

Cornelis van der Geest

He arranged for Rubens to get the order for a triptych for the Saint Walpurga church in Antwerp, which resulted in the Elevation of the Cross, now in the Cathedral of Antwerp.

Cryptantha crinita

Introduced species of plants in the area are also a threat, including red brome (Bromus madritensis ssp. rubens), yellow starthistle (Centaurea solstitialis), and medusahead (Taeniatherum caput-medusae).

Dudley Carleton, 1st Viscount Dorchester

He exchanged marbles for paintings with Rubens, served as an intermediary for collectors like Lord Somerset, Lord Pembroke, Lord Buckingham and sent Lord Arundel paintings by Daniel Mytens and Gerard van Honthorst.

Equestrian Portrait of the Duke of Lerma

Equestrian Portrait of the Duke of Lerma is a 1603 portrait of Francisco Gómez de Sandoval, 1st Duke of Lerma by Rubens, now in the Prado in Madrid.

Flemish Baroque painting

Rubens owned more works by him at the time of his death than any other painter, and artists such as David Teniers the Younger, Jan van de Venne, Joos van Craesbeeck and David Ryckaert III continued to work in a similar manner.

Florodora

The book was written by Jimmy Davis under the pseudonym Owen Hall, the music was by Leslie Stuart with additional songs by Paul Rubens, and the lyrics were by Edward Boyd-Jones and Rubens.

Gustav Friedrich Waagen

Among his other publications are some essays on Rubens, Mantegna and Signorelli; Kunstwerke und Künstler in Deutschland; and Die vornehmsten Kunstdenkmäler in Wien.

Jean-Baptiste Wicar

Wicar headed the commission set up by Napoleon I of France to loot artworks from the Austrian Netherlands to enrich museums in France - an initial convoy left Antwerp on 11 August 1794, notably with paintings by Rubens, for the Louvre.

Jean-Honoré Fragonard

He also learned to admire the masters of the Dutch and Flemish schools (Rubens, Hals, Rembrandt, Ruisdael), imitating their loose and vigorous brushstrokes.

Louis Nicolas Philippe Auguste de Forbin

The suites of paintings by Rubens and Le Sueur from the Palais du Luxembourg now came to the Louvre, and the remnants of the Revolutionary and Napoleonic musée des Augustins, as the works that had been sequestered from churches were returned to them.

Luminalia

Masques were usually staged in the Banqueting House at Whitehall Palace—but it was feared that the new Rubens murals on the ceiling there would be damaged by candle soot.

Maude Bonney

Born as Maude Rose Rubens, in Pretoria, South Africa, she adopted the name "Lores" later in preference to her given names.

Monastery of Pedralbes

The former dormitory houses a permanent exhibition of painters such as Rubens, Canaletto, Tintoretto, Velázquez and Beato Angelico (Virgin of the Humility, one of his masterworks).

Musée des Beaux-Arts de Nîmes

In the seven rooms of the upper gallery are Flemish and Dutch paintings of the 16th and 17th centuries (Rubens, Carel Fabritius, Pieter van Aelst (1502–1550), Leonaert Bramer) and French paintings by Renaud Levieux, Jean-François de Troy, Pierre Subleyras and Paul Delaroche's Oliver Cromwell with the corpse of Charles I.

Museum of Fine Arts of Nancy

Some of the painters whose work is featured in the collections are Perugino, Tintoretto, Jan Brueghel the Younger, Caravaggio, Georges de La Tour, Charles Le Brun, Ribera, Rubens, Claude Gellée (known as Le Lorrain and Claude), Luca Giordano, François Boucher, Eugène Delacroix, Édouard Manet, Claude Monet, Paul Signac, Modigliani, Picasso, Raoul Dufy...

Nicolas-Claude Fabri de Peiresc

He was also a noted politician in his home region, and a tireless letter-writer (10,000 of his letters survive, and he was in constant correspondence with Malherbe, Hugo Grotius, the brothers Dupuy, Alphonse-Louis du Plessis de Richelieu, and with his great friend Rubens.

Not Strictly Rubens

Not Strictly Rubens is the second soundtrack album by Praga Khan.

Orest Kiprensky

The portrait so impressed his contemporaries, that later members of the Naples Academy of Arts took it for the painting by some Old MasterRubens or van Dyck.

Periodization

However, the term "Baroque" as applied to art (for example Rubens) refers to a much earlier historical period than when applied to music (Händel, Bach).

Pete and Dud

The "Dagenham Dialogues" between the two ranged from paintings (Pete finds the Mona Lisa snooty), how the bottoms of Rubens's nudes seem to follow you around the room, reasons why geckos do not live long and being annoyed by film stars (including "bloody Greta Garbo" and "bloody Anna Magnani") pestering them for romance.

Peter Lely

His collection of Old Masters, including Veronese, Titian, Claude Lorrain and Rubens, and a fabulous collection of drawings, was broken up and sold after his death, raising the immense sum of £26,000.

Petit Palais

The museum displays paintings by painters such as Rembrandt, Rubens, Nicolas Poussin, Claude Gellée, Fragonard, Hubert Robert, Greuze and a remarkable collection of 19th-century painting and sculpture: Ingres, Géricault, Delacroix, Courbet, Monet, Sisley, Pissarro, Cézanne, Modigliani, Carpeaux, Maillol, Rodin etc.

Portrait of Alfonso I d'Este

It was painted as a pendant to the Portrait of Laura Dianti of the same year (Laura Dianti was Alfonso I d'Este's lover) and is now known through copies, one of which is by Rubens and another of which is held at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.

Self-portrait in a circle of friends from Mantua

From left to right it shows Frans Pourbus, Caspar Schoppe, William Richardot, the painter's brother Philip or Filippo Rubens, Rubens himself, and Justus Lipsius.

Sibylla Rubens

Sibylla Rubens studied voice (concert and opera) at the Staatliche Musikhochschule in Trossingen and at the Hochschule für Musik in Frankfurt and in master classes with Edith Mathis.

Sir Francis Baring, 1st Baronet

Dutch 17th-century masters were his particular passion but by 1804 he had ‘done with all except the very superior’; now only works by Rembrandt, Rubens, or Van Dyck ‘tempt me’ but ‘the first must not be too dark, nor the second indecent’ (Barings archives, Northbrook MSS, A4.3).

St. Paul's Abbey in the Lavanttal

The abbey possesses one of the largest collections of art in Europe, including graphics, coins, sacred art, and paintings by among others Rubens, Van Dyck, Dürer, Holbein and Kremser Schmidt, as well as an extensive and important library of over 180,000 books and manuscripts from between the 5th and 18th centuries.

The Crowning of the Virtuous Hero

Jacob Grimm (then a legation secretary) played an instrumental part in gaining the return of the Rubens, which occurred in December 1815.

The Rubens

The Rubens are a four-piece alternative rock band originally from Menangle, New South Wales.

The Sunshine Girl

The Sunshine Girl is an Edwardian musical comedy in two acts with a book by Paul A. Rubens and Cecil Raleigh, lyrics and music by Rubens and additional lyrics by Arthur Wimperis.

Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum

Other highlights include works by the most famous Renaissance and Baroque painters, including Antonello da Messina (Portrait of a Man), Titian, Sebastiano del Piombo, Caravaggio, Rubens, Van Dyck, Murillo, Rembrandt and Frans Hals and portraits by Domenico Ghirlandaio and Vittore Carpaccio.

Triptych

The Cathedral of Our Lady in Antwerp, Belgium, contains two examples by Rubens, and Notre Dame de Paris is another example of the use of triptych in architecture.

Wilmar Cabrera

Wilmar Rubens Cabrera Sappa (born July 31, 1959 in Cerrillos, Uruguay) is a retired football striker from Uruguay, who was nicknamed "Toro".


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