Virgin and Child in a Garland PETER PAUL RUBENS c. 1620

 
The complete title of this exquisite composition is Virgin and Child in a Garland of Flowers.

1577-1640

 Rubens trained as a painter in Antwerp, where he had moved from Cologne in 1589 immediately after the death of his father. Rubens' first masters were Adam van Noort and Otto van Vaenius. In 1598 Rubens' enrollment in the Painters Guild is documented, and two years later he left for Italy and entered the service of Duke Vincenzo Gonzaga in Mantua as a portraitist and copyist, remaining there until 1608. His position did not prevent Rubens from traveling to other Italian cities during this time. In October of 1600 he was in Florence with Gonzaga to attend the wedding of Maria de' Medici and Henry IV and was in Florence again in 1603, a stopover on a journey to Spain. Rubens lived in Rome for a year, and he left behind there The Deposition [Rome, Galleria Borghese] and other important works. There followed sojourns in Spain [1603-04], Genoa [1604-05], and Rome again [1605-1607], where he painted the altarpiece for Santa Maria in Vallicella. In 1608 Rubens returned to Antwerp, where he spread the influence of the sixteenth-century Italian painters whom he had studied directly (Titian, Veronese, Correggio, the Carracci, and others) and gave the Flemish school of painting a new Baroque direction. 





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