Rubens: A Life in Europe

Arts, Biography Documentary with no narration published by Arte in 2018 - German language



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Peter Paul Rubens (1577-1640) is an artistic giant and already a star during his lifetime. From Antwerp, he conquered Western Europe with his art in an era marked by religious wars and intolerance. Today, he is often stereotyped as a painter of fat women, but Rubens' repertoire is almost inexhaustible. Rubens paints large, heavy figures in full motion and has an unbridled imagination. His captivating form of expression characterizes a completely new style that would later be called Baroque. As a young painter, he lived and worked in Italy for eight years.
The extent to which this stay inspired him is revealed by comparing Rubens' art with paintings and sculptures from antiquity and the Renaissance. Rubens is brilliant at using the works of other artists for his own work. He picks out individual elements and scenes, develops them further and changes them. This results in his very own, fascinating compositions, crowned with an outstanding painting technique. Antwerp is Rubens's center of life.
This is where he founded his workshop. Its production methods resemble those of a modern company and make the unimaginably wide expansion of his art and its content possible. Rubens proved to be a skilled entrepreneur and brilliant networker. In addition to Italy, he traveled to Spain, England, France and Germany and had friends, confidants and clients in all of these countries. Almost all art lovers in Europe owned one or more of his works at the time. He was not only valued as a painter; he was an intellectual who everyone liked to surround themselves with.
He also used his popularity to get involved politically. Through his diplomatic talks he managed to bring about peace between Spain and England. He was knighted by the English King Charles I for this. The documentary deals with the phenomenon of Peter Paul Rubens. How did he become who he was? Who and what shaped and inspired him? The film shows how Rubens managed to become the superstar of Western Europe during his lifetime.

A Film by Christine Romann ; Hessischer Rundfunk (HR) Production with ARTE

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Video Codec: H.264 CABAC Main@L3.1
Video Bitrate: 2 088 Kbps
Video Resolution: 1280x720
Display Aspect Ratio: 16:9
Frames Per Second: 25.000 fps
Audio Codec: AAC (LC)
Audio Bitrate: 125 kb/s VBR 48000 Hz
Audio Streams: 2
Audio Languages: german
RunTime Per Part: 52 min 53 s
Number Of Parts: 1
Part Size: 839 MB
Source: WEB DL
Capper: DocFreak08

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