Judgment of Paris

Judgment of Paris - Peter Paul Rubens Baroque oil painting. Lots more Rubens' paintings are available here, simply browse to see more options. Rubens is famous for Counter-Reformation altarpieces, portraits, landscapes, and history paintings of mythological and allegorical subjects. In 1600, Rubens travelled to Italy. He stopped first in Venice, where he saw paintings by Titian, Veronese, and Tintoretto, before settling in Mantua at the court of Duke Vincenzo I of Gonzaga.

Rubens was a prolific artist. He regularly covered religious subjects, "history" paintings, which included mythological subjects, and hunt scenes. He painted portraits, especially of friends, and self-portraits, and in later life painted several landscapes. Rubens designed tapestries and prints, as well as his own house. He also oversaw the ephemeral decorations of the Joyous Entry into Antwerp by the Cardinal-Infante Ferdinand in 1635.

Rembrandt's personal drawings and sketches are mostly extremely forceful but not detailed; he also made great use of oil sketches as preparatory studies. He was one of the last major artists to make consistent use of wooden panels as a support medium, even for very large works, but he used canvas as well, especially when the work needed to be sent a long distance. For altarpieces he sometimes painted on slate to reduce reflection problems.