Through a deal with Sir Dudley Carleton, this artist amassed the largest collection of antique sculpture in Europe.
Through a deal with Sir Dudley Carleton, this artist amassed the largest collection of antique sculpture in Europe. The French Academy was torn between a faction backing this man's view that color was more essential than drawing, and the Poussinistes (poo-san-EASTS), who argued the opposite. He subcontracted still-lifes in his large paintings to artists like Jacob Jordaens. The bloody siege of this artist's home city inspired his painting in which a brutish man prepares to slam dunk a baby under the orders of Herod the Great. In 1609, this artist of The Massacre of the Innocents returned from Italy to Antwerp, where he painted a triptych showing The Raising of the Cross. For 10 points, name this Flemish Baroque painter fond of painting fleshy nude women.
Through a deal with Sir Dudley Carleton, this artist amassed the largest collection of antique sculpture in Europe.
Sir Peter Paul Rubens