Peter Paul Rubens, 1605 - The Fall of Phaeton - fine art print

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The 17th century masterpiece The Fall of Phaeton was painted by the Dutch painter Peter Paul Rubens. What is more, the artpiece is part of the National Gallery of Art's digital collection, which is the museum of the US-American nation that preserves, collects, exhibits, and fosters an understanding of works of art. With courtesy of National Gallery of Art, Washington (license: public domain).The creditline of the artwork is: . Besides this, the alignment is landscape and has an aspect ratio of 4 : 3, meaning that the length is 33% longer than the width. The diplomat, painter Peter Paul Rubens was a European artist from the Netherlands, whose style was mainly Baroque. The Baroque artist was born in the year 1577 in Siegen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany and deceased at the age of 63 in 1640.

What does the curator team of the National Gallery of Art state about this 17th century artwork painted by Peter Paul Rubens? (© - by National Gallery of Art - National Gallery of Art)

Peter Paul Rubens (1577–1640), one of the greatest masters of the 17th century, painted this masterpiece as a young artist in Rome. Rubens depicted a moment of high drama in this popular Greek myth that was famously recounted in Ovid's Metamorphoses (c. 8 AD). Phaeton, the Sun-god Apollo's son, had begged and begged his father to allow him to drive the Chariot of the Sun across the sky. After Apollo finally conceded, his worst fears were confirmed: the rash youth had neither the strength nor the experience to control the chariot and keep it on its regular course through the heavens. The horses bolted in an erratic pattern, so that Earth either froze because the Sun Chariot was too far away, or it was scorched by the Sun's heat. At left, the Horae, butterfly-winged female figures personifying the seasons, which represent the harmony and order of the universe, are reacting in terror as Earth below bursts into flame. Even the great astrological bands that arch through the heavens are disrupted. Outside the picture frame, Jupiter, the supreme god, has just unleashed a thunderbolt aimed at Phaeton in order to save the universe from complete destruction. As the chariot disintegrates and the horses tumble apart, Phaeton plunges to his death.

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