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RUBENS, Peter Paul (b. 1577, Siegen, d. 1640, Antwerpen) |
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St Jerome in His Hermitage1608-09Oil on panel, 186 x 136 cm Schloss Sanssouci, Potsdam | |
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This early painting by Rubens was painted in Rome, and it shows his naive dependence upon a Michelangelesque source, turning the Sistine Ceiling's admittedly androgynous Erithrean Sibyl into the Church father. | |
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