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Baroque Co-creation: Jan Brueghel I and Rubens

by Art Courier

David Ibgui
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During the seventieth century, two of the most famous masters of baroque art - Jan Brueghel the Elder and Peter Paul Rubens - forged a close and fruitful working friendship. While Rubens painted illustrious and prolific figures, mythological themes and portraits, Jan Brueghel provided the images of flowers, animals, and still life objects with the most meticulous and luscious details. Roughly between 1598-1625, for about 27 years, these two heavy-weight painters co-created and collaborated, producing about 25 remarkable paintings together.

Jan Brueghel and Peter Paul Rubens, Allegory of the Five Senses - Taste, . c. 1617-1618, Oil on panel, 65 x 111 cm, Prado Museum.

Jan Brueghel and Peter Paul Rubens, Allegory of the Five Senses - Smell, . c. 1617-1618, Oil on panel, 65 x 111 cm, Prado Museum.

Jan Brueghel and Peter Paul Rubens, Allegory of the Five Senses - Sight, . c. 1617-1618, Oil on panel, 65 x 111 cm, Prado Museum, Madrid

Jan Brueghel and Peter Paul Rubens, Allegory of the Five Senses - Hearing, . c. 1617-1618, Oil on panel, 65 x 111 cm, Prado Museum.

Jan Brueghel and Peter Paul Rubens, Allegory of the Five Senses - Touch, 1618, Oil on panel, 65 x 111 cm, Prado Museum.

Jan Brueghel the Younger and Hendrick van Balen, An Allegory of the Four Elements, c. 1630. Source: Artdaily.com.

Virgin and Child in a Flower Garland with Angels. Peter Paul Rubens and Jan Brueghel, Artothek, Weilheim.

Peter Paul Rubens (1577-1640) and Jan Brueghel the Elder (1568-1625), Madonna in a Flower Garland, ca. 1616-18. O i l on panel, 185 x 209.8 cm (72% x 825/s in.). Alte Pinakothek, Munich.

Rubens with Jan Brueghel the Elder, The Battle of the Amazons, about 1598 © Schloss Sanssouci Bildergalerie, Stiftung Preußische Schlösser ind Gärten Berlin-Brandenburg, Potsdam

Jan Brueghel the Elder, Peter Paul Rubens, The Garden of Eden with the Fall of Man, c. 1615, Mautitshuis, The Hague.

The Return from War: Mars Disarmed by Venus by Peter Paul Rubens and Jan Brueghel the Elder, painter Flemish, Antwerp, about 1610 - 1612, Oil on panel, 50 1/8 x 64 3/8 in. The Getty Center Los Angeles.