1628
unspecified
From the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art
The Triumph of the Church is a 1628 unspecified by Peter Paul Rubens, a Baroque work, held at Cleveland Museum of Art.
You see a swirl of robed figures, angels, and clouds—all celebrating around a glowing altar. The colors are rich, almost like stained glass. This painting is a small copy of Rubens’ design for a huge tapestry. The real tapestries were made for a Spanish queen and still hang in Madrid. The original sketch is in the Prado. To see how Rubens built these crowded scenes, look up *impasto*—thick paint that makes light pop off the canvas.
This work is likely a copy after Rubens’s oil sketch for the Triumph of the Eucharist tapestry series. Isabella, daughter of King Phillip II of Spain, commissioned the tapestries for a royal monastery in Madrid. The finished tapestries still hang there today, and the original oil sketch is in the Museo del Prado, Madrid.
Read the full account in the museum source.
Sir Peter Paul Rubens ( ROO-bənz; Dutch: ; 28 June 1577 – 30 May 1640) was a Flemish artist and diplomat.
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