@peterpaulrubens.bsky.social
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.
Bearded man, not happy to be squeezed onto small panel & imprisoned in heavy frame. Sorry! By Joos van Cleve, 1515. Today has been his day.
Mary was just reading until baby fell asleep. Such a sweet scene (before A+ landscape) by Joos van Cleve, 1525. Today was his day.
2/2 Saint Bernard, trying to have a word w/ Mary. She is more concerned w/ what kid is doing to her jewelry. By Joos Van Cleve, 1505.
Portrait of an old man by Joos van Cleve, 1535. What a face!
2/2 Holy Family in the 1520s. Now Joseph has been exiled to outside the window. Seems harsh! By Joos van Cleve, whose day is today.
Holy family, w/ Christ being nourished. Fruit & wine offered to us as well. Joseph elderly & a bit toothless, poor he. By Joos van Cleve, 1512.
2/2 Clutching his gloves & sword, and looking right at you from 1528: young man painted by Joos van Cleve.
Did not want to sit for her portrait. Refuses to be a good sport about it. Joos van Cleve just deals with it, and today is his day.
2/2 Saint Jerome in 1528. Still has a headache! Sad! As painted by Joos van Cleve.
Saint Jerome has a headache from thinking about mortality. He should cheer up -- life is full of fascinating material stuff. According to Joos van Cleve, 1521.
2/2 A man (w/ truly A+ gloves) & his dog. So many great details!
Antwerp’s trademark design: Adoration of the Kings, in a completely elegant triptych from c.1525 by Joos Van Cleve, whose day is today.
2/2 Also pretty square, Francis I, painted in 1530 by Joos van Cleve.
Before Holbein: Henry VIII in the 1530s, already cultivating squareness as a personal aesthetic. Square is a fine shape! By Joos van Cleve, whose day is today.
2/2 Triptych of the Virgin, saints, and donors before a landscape -- beautiful late work by Joos van Cleve, whose day is today.
What a lovely Annunciation: beautiful room, cheerful angel, fine reading material. Then, bird coming in for a landing. All from Joos van Cleve in 1525. Today is his day.
2/2 Later self-portrait of Joos van Cleve (now bearded), and his wife, in the 1530s. What is it with red-headed painters recently?
Today's artist w/out a (known) birthday: Joos van Cleve, who worked in Antwerp but traveled a lot. Here he is in 1519, by himself.
Looking right at you: man in a red hat. By Vittore Carpaccio, whose day was today.
2/2 There among the flowers, the knight’s dog. There’s always a dog! Carpaccio, on his day.
Carpaccio's portrait of knight in a landscape, 1510. Possibly Francesco Maria della Rovere. Odd, even mysterious, yet wonderful.
Peace be with you Mark, my Evangelist. So says fierce winged lion of Venice, as painted by Carpaccio. Today is his day.
Looking right at you from 1495, a courtesan with inventive hair styling. Painted by Vittore Carpaccio, whose day is today.
3/3 Plus, the lily hovering strangely in the foreground of Carpaccio's Bird Hunting was originally rooted in a pot in this scene of 2 courtesans -- they were one tall thin painting. How weird is that?
2/2 This just amazes me: verso of Carpaccio's Bird-Hunting on Venetian Lagoon is this incredible trompe l'oeil letter rack. 1490s! Wow.
Hunting with cormorants on the Venetian lagoon, painted by Vittore Carpaccio in the 1490s. Today is his day.
3/3 Saint Augustine's books. And his music. Very important in a scholar's study!
2/2 Augustine's dog, also listening intently to news of his person's immanent departure.
Augustine in his study, interrupted from writing by the voice of Saint Jerome calling him to heaven. Painted for the Scuola di San Giorgio degli Schiavone, Venice, by Vittore Carpaccio. Today is his day.
3/3 Ursula & her 10,000 friends arriving in Cologne. Men gather on shore to marvel that this many virgins exist. By Vittore Carpaccio, whose day is today.