Peter Paul Rubens, Rembrandt van Rijn, and the Spousal Model Muse
H. Perry Chapman Friday, March 11, 2016, 1:30 pm The notion that the artists model is also his lover and muse stems from antiquity. In the 17thcentury Netherlands, Peter Paul Rubens and Rembrandt van Rijn painted their wives in stunningly intimate portraits and as historical, biblical, or mythological figures. It appears that they also portrayed their wives in the nude. In a time and place when artists studios were in their homes, group lifedrawing sessions were part of studio practice, women who pos
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