Rubens and His Legacy: Cézanne to Lucas

Peter Paul Rubens is known as the "prince of painters". From hunting scenes to allegorical depictions of love, his compositions are epic, his colours rich and his figures voluptuous. He epitomises the Baroque style: his women are chased, seduced, raped; their skin luminescent and their flesh sensual. From his 17th century ideal of female beauty we have the term Rubanesque, a stark contrast to conceptions of femi...