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WAS
GOODRUBENS
A
TAPESTRYDESIGNER
KOENRAAD BROSENS | UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN WAS
GOODRUBENS
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TAPESTRYDESIGNER
1| GENESIS AND RELEVANCE OF THIS QUESTION2| ANALYSIS OF RUBENS’S TAPESTRY DESIGNS3| RUBENS’S FOOTPRINT ON TAPESTRY DESIGN
Je confesse d’estre, par un instinct naturel, plus propreà faire des ouvrages bien grands que des petites curiositez.
Chacun a sa grâce; mon talent est tel que jamais entreprise encore quelle fut desmesurée en quantité et diversité de suggets a surmonté mon courage.
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The rather stiff style of the late-Renaissance masters had to make way for splendid, dynamic figures full of grace and life […]
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No wonder the well-known Brussels tapestryproducers were soanxious to draw on his skill to inject new life into their production. After the troubled yearsof the religious wars followed by the Fall of Antwerp and emigration, the art of designingcartoons for tapestrieshad almost come to a standstill.
DECIUSMUS
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[…] lack the richness of design and enliveningpatterns thatcharacterized the greatexamples of the sixteenth century and, indeed, of later seventeenth-centuryproductions, both in Brussels and elsewhere.
The success of Rubens’s tapestry designs depends on the skills of the weavers who interpreted them in woven form.
The success of Rubens’s tapestry designs depends on the skills of the weavers
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TAPESTRYDESIGNER
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RUBENS RUBENS
BRUSSELS|1600 BRUSSELS|1600 RUBENS
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BRUSSELS|1600 RUBENS
DE
CIU
S MUS FRANS SWEERTS
CO
NS
TAN
TIN
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COMANS|DE LA PLANCHE
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DUCHESS ISABELLA
EU
CH
AR
IST
AR
CH
DANIEL FOURMENT
AC
HIL
LES
No wonder the well-known Brussels tapestryproducers were soanxious to draw on his skill to inject new life into their production.
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GOODRUBENS
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TAPESTRYDESIGNER
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SIMON VOUET MICHEL CORNEILLE
RUBENS‘LIGHT’
RUBENS‘LIGHT’
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RUBENS‘LIGHT’
JACOB JORDAENS
JUSTUS VAN EGMONT RUBENS RECYCLED MANNERIST DESIGNS
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ANTOON SALLAERT LANCELOOT LEFEBURE RUBENS
CHARLES POERSON
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GOODRUBENS
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TAPESTRYDESIGNER
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