Sources of inspiration for Rubens' Large Thunderstorm Landscape
9 February 2021
Lecture by Gerlinde Gruber
(in German language)
The Viennese thunderstorm landscape by Peter Paul Rubens (1577-1640) remained in the artist's possession and is an impressive testimony to his openness to inspiration of all kinds. Here he succeeded in merging antique models with ideas from Leonardo, Titian, Pieter Bruegel the Elder and many others to create an original, convincing and new composition. In several extensions, he significantly changed the content of the picture and developed a mythological scene with a happy ending from a dramatic landscape.