Compare And Contrast Diego Velazquez And Peter Paul Rubens
Crystal Boylston
October 15, 2014
Historical Compare and Contrast
Diego Velazquez and Peter Paul Rubens are two well-known painters who is famous for many of their artwork. Diego Velazquez has magnificent artwork; one of his masterpieces is Las Meninas “The Maid of Honor”. Peter Paul Rubens is also famous for numerous painting and his creative talent. “The Rape of the Daughters of Leucippus,” is one of his prized possessions.
Diego Velazquez’s “Las Meninas” painting shows the viewer that there is something what seems to be children getting dressed up to have their picture taken, or portrait being painted. In this artwork the painter is also in the picture standing at the back, so the painting seems kind of awkward, but as I analyze the painting; the painter is …show more content…
actually telling another story being the painting.
Velazquez’s Las Meninas is a 1656 painting, in the Museo del Prado in Madrid. Las Meninas is Spanish for the Maids of honor. The portrait is of Infanta Margarita, the daughter of King Philip IV, and his second wife Mariana of Austria. Las Meninas allows the spectator to interact with the painting’s various points of view and therefore offers him a fuller understanding of the painting’s emotional and intellectual depth. Infanta Margarita looks as if she had dropped in to see Velazquez at work because her posture is settled and straight as everyone else and she looks as if she interrupted the painting section. She stops right next to him, at the center of the foreground of the painting, but she seems perplexed. There is a peculiar strangeness in Las Meninas. Infanta Margarita is definitely not posing for her portrait. If Velazquez initial painting wasn’t for the Infanta Margarita; then who was he painting? Velazquez’s technique of painting was inspired by Baroque. Baroque is the period and the style that used exaggerated motion in order to produce drama and tension. Velazquez ended up painting two painting because he was mesmerized by the uniqueness in the children behavior and he included
himself in the portrait. I believe the message the artist was trying to convey was to look deeper than just the surface of the painting; analyze it and you will find the mysteries in it. The public was didn’t accept Velazquez artwork during his time at first. They didn’t understand it. Las Meninas is a historical painting. I feel that this painting was meant to raise social consciousness and to look deeper than what the eye can see.
The Rape of the Daughters of Leucippus tells a different story. It depicts a story taken from Ovid: when Zeus and Leda’s sons, Castor and Pollux, abduct the mortal daughters of King Leucippus. The muscular men, of Michelangelo’s bulky figures, capture the two young, fleshy and pink maidens being forced to have intimacy with the men as their garments fall to the ground. Rubens created this painting for an aristocrat who wanted to celebrate the double marriage of Louis XIII of France and his sister Elisabeth to the young Philip IV of Spain and his sister Anne. It’s freighting that someone conceivably could have commissioned Rubens to paint this subject as an allegory for a political marriage. During this time period they raped and abducted women. They took them young for their wives as an act of complete soveignity. Ruben was commissioned to paint this portrait to symbolized absolute and complete soveignity. I think the message that the painter was forced to give to public was that this is what happens to women for them to obey and submit themselves to men completely. I would think that the public during this time would be outraged at the things that were happening; especially women. This painting in a way is religious and historical. It is their custom during that time in England to treat women like that. This painting had to have raise social consciousness and to the women; awareness.
The painting Las Meninas and The Rape of the Daughters of Leucippus are both great painting depict the reason or circumstances of why they were initially painted. They both tell very interesting stories. The artist did an awesome job at telling the story as well as the usage of the materials they had to create it.
October 15, 2014
Historical Compare and Contrast
Diego Velazquez and Peter Paul Rubens are two well-known painters who is famous for many of their artwork. Diego Velazquez has magnificent artwork; one of his masterpieces is Las Meninas “The Maid of Honor”. Peter Paul Rubens is also famous for numerous painting and his creative talent. “The Rape of the Daughters of Leucippus,” is one of his prized possessions.
Diego Velazquez’s “Las Meninas” painting shows the viewer that there is something what seems to be children getting dressed up to have their picture taken, or portrait being painted. In this artwork the painter is also in the picture standing at the back, so the painting seems kind of awkward, but as I analyze the painting; the painter is …show more content…
actually telling another story being the painting.
Velazquez’s Las Meninas is a 1656 painting, in the Museo del Prado in Madrid. Las Meninas is Spanish for the Maids of honor. The portrait is of Infanta Margarita, the daughter of King Philip IV, and his second wife Mariana of Austria. Las Meninas allows the spectator to interact with the painting’s various points of view and therefore offers him a fuller understanding of the painting’s emotional and intellectual depth. Infanta Margarita looks as if she had dropped in to see Velazquez at work because her posture is settled and straight as everyone else and she looks as if she interrupted the painting section. She stops right next to him, at the center of the foreground of the painting, but she seems perplexed. There is a peculiar strangeness in Las Meninas. Infanta Margarita is definitely not posing for her portrait. If Velazquez initial painting wasn’t for the Infanta Margarita; then who was he painting? Velazquez’s technique of painting was inspired by Baroque. Baroque is the period and the style that used exaggerated motion in order to produce drama and tension. Velazquez ended up painting two painting because he was mesmerized by the uniqueness in the children behavior and he included
himself in the portrait. I believe the message the artist was trying to convey was to look deeper than just the surface of the painting; analyze it and you will find the mysteries in it. The public was didn’t accept Velazquez artwork during his time at first. They didn’t understand it. Las Meninas is a historical painting. I feel that this painting was meant to raise social consciousness and to look deeper than what the eye can see.
The Rape of the Daughters of Leucippus tells a different story. It depicts a story taken from Ovid: when Zeus and Leda’s sons, Castor and Pollux, abduct the mortal daughters of King Leucippus. The muscular men, of Michelangelo’s bulky figures, capture the two young, fleshy and pink maidens being forced to have intimacy with the men as their garments fall to the ground. Rubens created this painting for an aristocrat who wanted to celebrate the double marriage of Louis XIII of France and his sister Elisabeth to the young Philip IV of Spain and his sister Anne. It’s freighting that someone conceivably could have commissioned Rubens to paint this subject as an allegory for a political marriage. During this time period they raped and abducted women. They took them young for their wives as an act of complete soveignity. Ruben was commissioned to paint this portrait to symbolized absolute and complete soveignity. I think the message that the painter was forced to give to public was that this is what happens to women for them to obey and submit themselves to men completely. I would think that the public during this time would be outraged at the things that were happening; especially women. This painting in a way is religious and historical. It is their custom during that time in England to treat women like that. This painting had to have raise social consciousness and to the women; awareness.
The painting Las Meninas and The Rape of the Daughters of Leucippus are both great painting depict the reason or circumstances of why they were initially painted. They both tell very interesting stories. The artist did an awesome job at telling the story as well as the usage of the materials they had to create it.