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Description: | Rubens was probably commissioned to provide a great propagandist decorative scheme for Inigo Jones's new building in Charles I's Palace when he visited London as a diplomat in 1629. Most, if not all, of Rubens' sketches for the ceiling were made in Antwerp where the canvases still in the Banqueting House, were also painted. Fifteen oil sketches survive of which only three are in Britain. The programme on the ceiling centres on an Apotheosis of James I. Sir Oliver Millar describes the finished scene: The benign James leans down from his throne to sanctify the joining of the crowns over the head of the infant Prince Charles... Or, perhaps more fancifully, as an impersonal embodiment of the young Great Britain. | Subjects: | history (James I uniting England and Scotland) | Source: | Vads | Creator: | Artist: Rubens, Peter Paul (Flemish painter and draftsman, 1577-1640) Æ | Identifier: | http://www.vads.ac.uk/large.php?uid=9160... | Go to resource |
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