Dr. Peter Paul Rubens
@peterpaulrubens.bsky.social
All-around genius working for peace, beauty, and intelligent thought.
IRL: professor of art history. Occasionally write things about Rubens. Also Dutch art, the Bruegel family, and Elizabethan visual culture.
Reader of many novels. DC & Amsterdam.
IRL: professor of art history. Occasionally write things about Rubens. Also Dutch art, the Bruegel family, and Elizabethan visual culture.
Reader of many novels. DC & Amsterdam.
2/2 Monk and nun, both looking incredibly uninterested in all the hanky-panky in 1591. By Cornelis van Haarlem.
November 11, 2025 at 5:00 PM
2/2 Monk and nun, both looking incredibly uninterested in all the hanky-panky in 1591. By Cornelis van Haarlem.
2/2 Hannah Ranby, looking very grown up in her pearl choker, and painted in 1748 by William Hogarth.
November 11, 2025 at 12:40 AM
2/2 Hannah Ranby, looking very grown up in her pearl choker, and painted in 1748 by William Hogarth.
2/2 End of the “rake’s progress” is Bedlam. Varieties of madness, watched (horribly) by genteel tourists. By William Hogarth, whose day is today.
November 10, 2025 at 10:09 PM
2/2 End of the “rake’s progress” is Bedlam. Varieties of madness, watched (horribly) by genteel tourists. By William Hogarth, whose day is today.
2/2 Studies of a few less serious heads by Hogarth from back in 1733.
November 10, 2025 at 8:09 PM
2/2 Studies of a few less serious heads by Hogarth from back in 1733.
2/2 When mighty Roast Beef was the Englishman's food, It ennobled our brains and enriched our blood. Our soldiers were brave and our courtiers were good: A little anti-vegetarian (& anti-French) ditty brought to you by William Hogarth.
November 10, 2025 at 7:12 PM
2/2 When mighty Roast Beef was the Englishman's food, It ennobled our brains and enriched our blood. Our soldiers were brave and our courtiers were good: A little anti-vegetarian (& anti-French) ditty brought to you by William Hogarth.
2/2 Dolls' Tea Party, 1730, w/ non-cooperation of pup. Another ridiculously cute scene by normally sharp & satirical William Hogarth, born OTD 1697.
November 10, 2025 at 5:50 PM
2/2 Dolls' Tea Party, 1730, w/ non-cooperation of pup. Another ridiculously cute scene by normally sharp & satirical William Hogarth, born OTD 1697.
2/2 Countess's husband, in his curling-papers, sips his morning chocolate. Possibly the most ridiculous-looking man in 18th-century painting. Or ever. Well done, William Hogarth, & happy birthday!.JPG
November 10, 2025 at 4:38 PM
2/2 Countess's husband, in his curling-papers, sips his morning chocolate. Possibly the most ridiculous-looking man in 18th-century painting. Or ever. Well done, William Hogarth, & happy birthday!.JPG
2/2 Co-starring the dog. Whose name, I regret to say, was Trump!
November 10, 2025 at 12:31 PM
2/2 Co-starring the dog. Whose name, I regret to say, was Trump!