Study of Two Heads, ca. 1609, Oil on wood, 27 1/2 x 20 1/2 in. ( x cm), Paintings, Peter Paul Rubens (Flemish, Siegen 1

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Study of Two Heads, ca. 1609, Oil on wood, 27 1/2 x 20 1/2 in. ( x cm), Paintings, Peter Paul Rubens (Flemish, Siegen 1577–1640 Antwerp), Rubens painted studies of heads after live models and artistic sources, creating a cast of characters that served in turn as models for figures in religious and mythological works. The main figure here became a saint in a great altarpiece of 1609, a high priest in 1612, and a river god, then Plato (in an engraving after Rubens) in about 1615

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