The Battle of the Amazons (Rubens)
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| Artist | Peter Paul Rubens |
| Year | c. 1618 |
| Medium | oil on wood |
| Dimensions | 121 cm × 165.5 cm (48 in × 65.2 in) |
| Location | Alte Pinakothek, Munich |
The Battle of the Amazons or Amazonomachia is an oil on wood painting produced around 1618.[1] It shows an amazonomachy, i.e. a mythological battle between the ancient Greeks and the Amazons, a nation of all-female warriors.
The work by Rubens shows his huge admiration for Leonardo da Vinci's Battle of Anghiari, of which he owned a copy which he had touched up.[2] It is in the collection of the Alte Pinakothek in Munich.[3]
This painting was formerly in the collection of Cornelis van der Geest and can be seen in two paintings of his art gallery in the 1630s by Willem van Haecht.
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Apelles painting Campaspe, 1630 -
The Gallery of Cornelis van der Geest, 1628
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Notes
[edit]- ^ Peter Paul Rubens, Battle between horsemen at the Netherlands Institute for Art History
- ^ M. Jaffé, Rubens è un italiano, in Rubens. Catalogo completo. Milano, Rizzoli, 1987, pp. 66–84. ISBN 881725701X.
- ^ [https://www.sammlung.pinakothek.de/de/artwork/2mxqZgML8b Peter Paul Rubens (1577-1640), Die Amazonenschlacht, um 1618] at the Alte Pinakothek site
