Rape of the Daughters of Leucippus;

During the seventeenth century, Peter Paul Rubens was renowned as one of the greatest and most popular of all Baroque artists in Europe. He masterfully combined artistic developments from antiquity, the Italian Renaissance and Italian Baroque with his own Flemish painting heritage; the result was an innovative, dynamic style, known as International Baroque, which was truly the first pan-European manner. Rubens’ unique style is manifested in The Rape of the Daughters of Leuccipus: the idealized and voluptuous figures, dramatic diagonal composition, intense colors, and energetic, lyrical brushst... Mehr ...