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' Medici At The Port Of Marseilles By Peter Paul Rubens
In my opinion, in the work, Disembarkation of Marie de’ Medici at the Port of Marseilles on November 3, 1600, by Peter Paul Rubens, the artist challenged the conventional treatment of female beauty with his own standard of a beautiful body. Instead of focused on the form of the body and the perfect proportion to meet up with the Classical beauty, Rubens played with color to create a distinguishable quality of flesh between male and female figures in his painting. The skin color of water nymphs in the work is a lot lighter compared to the two Greek gods. Rather than follow the path of an ideal proportion for his female figures, Rubens painted them more rounded and full. Those folds and wrinkles details in the painting show viewers the artist’s
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