In this Research and Academic Program lecture, Jesús Muñoz Morcillo (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology / Clark Fellow) discusses Peter Paul Rubens’s use of Dionysian and materialistic traditions, focusing on their connection to nature and their impact on environmental depictions. It has been said that Rubens’s visual references to Dionysian motifs are related to his stay in Rome in the years 1600 to 1608. However, Rubens’s compositions of wet, wild, and vibrant environments surrounding Bacchic scenes transcend visual references to plastic archetypes. Indeed, Rubens seems to draw on specific ancient sources, including not only Dionysian descriptions found in authors such as …
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