LXIV: Assorted, cont’d

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Following the Lutheran break with Rome in the sixteenth century and the subsequent spread of ‘Protestant-ism’ throughout much of northern Europe, most patrons of the arts in that region rapidly lost interest in the Virgin—whose worship, after all, was one of their main points of discord with Rome—with the result that most northern artists now turned more or less exclusively to painting real-life portraits, still-lifes, and local landscapes.

However, the German-born Flemish painter Peter Paul Reubens—who reportedly once told a patron that his passion for painting came from musing on heavenly matters, rather than on earthly—would have no part in that.

By then a citizen of Antwerp, Belgium—to which his widowed mother had fled with him as a child toward the end of the sixteenth century so that she might raise him in her own, Catholic faith without fear of religious persecution—the Madonna would ultimately appear in thirty-seven of his paintings, or about ten percent of the three hundred ninety-five with which he is credited by modern historians. And since this page will wrap up our tour of Madonna paintings in western Europe prior to 1650 or so, I’ve decided to just run it out to the end with the thirty-five that I could locate.

In the order in which he painted them, then:

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1151: Wikimedia Commons https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Jacob_de_Backer_-_Madonna_and_Child_with_Saint_John.jpg

1152: Artnet http://www.artnet.com/artists/gillis-backereel/la-sainte-famille-avec-saint-jean-baptiste-et-MS1Dl7q-meYak7NjV_vupw2

1153: Wikimedia Commons https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hendrik_van_Balen_-_Casamento_M%C3%ADstico_de_Santa_Catarina.jpg#mw-jump-to-license

1154: Wikimedia Commons https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Jan_Brueghel_(I)and_Hans_Rottenhammer-_Rest_on_the_Flight_into_Egypt.jpg#mw-jump-to-license

1155: Sothebys https://www.sothebys.com/en/auctions/ecatalogue/2018/the-otto-naumann-sale-n09810/lot.9.html

1156: Wikimedia Commons https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sacra_famiglia_e_san_Giovannino,_Pieter_de_Witte,_001.JPG#mw-jump-to-license

1157: Wikimedia Commons https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Aanbidding_der_koningen_Hendrick_De_Clerck.jpg#mw-jump-to-license

1158: Wikimedia Commons https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Abraham_govaerts_e_ambrosius_francken_II,_madonna_col_bambino_in_un_paesaggio_boscoso,_fiandre_1615-20_ca.jpg

1159: Wikimedia Commons https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Adam_van_Noort_-_Adoration_of_the_Magi.PNG

1160: Pinterest https://www.pinterest.com/pin/305822630942500740/?nic_v1=1b4DCHw%2BGNXpFHvvR1513yHR8IbYz5YSQoL1NBL9%2BEGqWOqfviJdxIMIEHzDdPsXcG

1161: Artnet http://www.artnet.com/artists/pieter-van-mol/

1162: Wikipedia https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deodat_del_Monte

1163: Pinterest https://www.pinterest.es/maricarjimeperi/theodoor-romboutsvan-loon/

1164: Wikimedia Commons https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Antoon_Sallaert

1165: auctions.comm https://www.rm-auctions.com/en/european-ceramics-and-decorative-arts/9652-cornelis-schut-iii-antwerp-ca-1629-sevilla-1685-entourage-of-madonna-with-child-and-saint-anthony-oil-on-copper

1166: WikiArt https://www.wikiart.org/en/peter-paul-rubens/all-works

1167: WikiArt https://www.wikiart.org/en/peter-paul-rubens/the-circumcision-of-christ-1605/

1168: WikiArt https://www.wikiart.org/en/peter-paul-rubens/the-lamentation-1606/

1169: WikiArt https://www.wikiart.org/en/peter-paul-rubens/virgin-and-child-adored-by-angels-1608

1170: WikiArt https://www.wikiart.org/en/peter-paul-rubens/adoration-of-the-shepherds-1608/

1171: WikiArt https://www.wikiart.org/en/peter-paul-rubens/adoration-of-the-shepherds-1608/

1172: WikiArt https://www.wikiart.org/en/peter-paul-rubens/adoration-of-the-shepherds-1608-0

1173: WikiArt https://www.wikiart.org/en/peter-paul-rubens/annunciation-1610

1174: WikiArt https://www.wikiart.org/en/peter-paul-rubens/the-entombment-1612

1175: WikiArt https://www.wikiart.org/en/peter-paul-rubens/lament-of-christ-1614

1176: WikiArt https://www.wikiart.org/en/peter-paul-rubens/descent-from-the-cross-centre-panel-1614/

1177: WikiArt https://www.wikiart.org/en/peter-paul-rubens/the-holy-family-with-st-elizabeth-and-the-infant-st-john-the-baptist-1614

1178: WikiArt https://www.wikiart.org/en/peter-paul-rubens/the-holy-family-with-st-elizabeth-1615-0

1179: WikiArt https://www.wikiart.org/en/peter-paul-rubens/the-holy-family-with-st-elizabeth-1615/

1180: WikiArt https://www.wikiart.org/en/peter-paul-rubens/adoration-of-the-shepherds-1615

1181: WikiArt https://www.wikiart.org/en/peter-paul-rubens/virgin-in-adoration-before-the-christ-child-1615

1182: WikiArt https://www.wikiart.org/en/peter-paul-rubens/the-virgin-and-child-with-st-elizabeth-and-the-infant-st-john-the-baptist-1615/

1183: WikiArt https://www.wikiart.org/en/peter-paul-rubens/assumption-of-virgin-1616

1184: WikiArt https://www.wikiart.org/en/peter-paul-rubens/adoration-of-the-shepherds-1616

1185: WikiArt https://www.wikiart.org/en/peter-paul-rubens/adoration-of-the-shepherds-1617

1186: WikiArt https://www.wikiart.org/en/peter-paul-rubens/descent-from-the-cross-1617

1187: WikiArt https://www.wikiart.org/en/peter-paul-rubens/lamentation-christ-on-the-straw-1618

1188: WikiArt https://www.wikiart.org/en/peter-paul-rubens/descent-from-the-cross-1618/

1189: WikiArt https://www.wikiart.org/en/peter-paul-rubens/adoration-of-the-magi-1619

1190: WikiArt https://www.wikiart.org/en/peter-paul-rubens/assumption-of-virgin-1620

1191: WikiArt https://www.wikiart.org/en/peter-paul-rubens/virgin-and-child-1620

1192: WikiArt https://www.wikiart.org/en/peter-paul-rubens/the-virgin-and-child-in-a-garland-of-flower-1621

1193: WikiArt https://www.wikiart.org/en/peter-paul-rubens/the-assumption-of-mary-1622

1194: WikiArt: https://www.wikiart.org/en/peter-paul-rubens/the-assumption-of-mary-1622

1195: WikiArt https://www.wikiart.org/en/peter-paul-rubens/virgin-and-child-1625

1196: WikiArt https://www.wikiart.org/en/peter-paul-rubens/assumption-of-the-virgin-1626

1197: WikiArt https://www.wikiart.org/en/peter-paul-rubens/immaculate-conception-1628

1198: WikiArt https://www.wikiart.org/en/peter-paul-rubens/adoration-of-the-magi-1629

1199: WikiArt https://www.wikiart.org/en/peter-paul-rubens/the-holy-family-with-st-anne-1630

1200: WikiArt https://www.wikiart.org/en/peter-paul-rubens/our-lady-with-the-saints-1634/