Palettes: Great Artists and Their Paintings - Peter Paul Rubens

Plot

Each episode of Palettes intensively investigates the work of a major Western artist. Each individual painting is carefully considered from its subject matter to the techniques used in its construction. Guided by Alain Jaubert of the Louvre, viewers stand witness to the painting secrets revealed through the use of modern technologies like x-rays and video animation. In Palettes: Great Artists and Their Paintings -- Peter Paul Rubens, viewers examine the paintings Rubens made of Helene Fourment, a woman who began as his model and ended as his wife. Besides the two extant paintings of her in the Louvre, the program offers an answer as to what the nudes Rubens painted of her may have looked like. ~ Rob Ferrier, Rovi

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