Saint Clare stops the Saracen by Rubens 1620

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Saint Clare stops the Saracen armies through the Blessed Sacrament, oil sketch on panel.

In March 1620, Rubens agreed to produce thirty-nine paintings for the ceilings of the galleries in the Jesuit Church in Antwerp. These were executed by assistants from models supplied by the artist. Rubens also painted a number of summary monochrome sketches of which this is one. St Clare is shown holding up the host with which she is said to have put the Saracens to flight. In 1718 the ceilings were destroyed by fire. 

Peter Paul Rubens (1620), oil on panel. Collection: The Rubens House

Dimensions: 48 cm x 40 cm

Known for his Counter Reformation portraits, landscapes and paintings, Sir Peter Paul Rubens was a Baroque painter, book illustrator and a diplomat during the early 1600s. The Rubens House is a city of Antwerp-owned and curated building that Rubens designed himself and spent most of his lifetime in. The Rubens House is home to paintings such as St. Claire of Assisi, The Annunciation and Adam and Eve made by the great painter himself in addition to the works of other contemporaries of his time. 

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