The Elevation of the Cross, c.1610/11 by Peter Paul Rubens
Canvas Print - 3113-RPP
Location: Antwerp Cathedral, Antwerp, BelgiumOriginal Size: 462 x 339 cm
Giclée Canvas Print | $50.99 USD
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*Max printing size: 59.1 x 40.8 in
*Max framing size: Long side up to 28"
"The Elevation of the Cross" will be custom-printed for your order using the latest giclée printing technology. This technique ensures that the Canvas Print captures an exceptional level of detail, showcasing vibrant and vivid colors with remarkable clarity.
Our use of the finest quality, fine-textured canvas lends art reproductions a painting-like appearance. Combined with a satin-gloss coating, it delivers exceptional print outcomes, showcasing vivid colors, intricate details, deep blacks, and impeccable contrasts. The canvas structure is also highly compatible with canvas stretching frames, further enhancing its versatility.
To ensure proper stretching of the artwork on the stretcher-bar, we add additional blank borders around the printed area on all sides.
Our printing process utilizes cutting-edge technology and employs the Giclée printmaking method, ensuring exceptional quality. The colors undergo independent verification, guaranteeing a lifespan of over 100 years.
Please note that there are postal restrictions limiting the size of framed prints to a maximum of 28 inches along the longest side of the painting. If you desire a larger art print, we recommend utilizing the services of your local framing studio.
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If you select a frameless art print of "The Elevation of the Cross" by Rubens, it will be prepared for shipment within 48 hours. However, if you prefer a framed artwork, the printing and framing process will typically require approximately 7-8 days before it is ready to be shipped.
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Painting Information
Rubens painted the famous triptych "The Exaltation of the Cross", of which only the middle part is presented here, for the church of St. Walpurga". The impact of the imposing altarpiece, even in its sheer size, on the contemporary viewer, accustomed to the restrained language and forms of the Mannerists, must have been truly stunning. By transforming the biblical narrative into a dramatic scene, Rubens makes the viewer - fully in the spirit of the Counter-Reformation - directly feel and empathise with the event, bringing the spiritual into the realm of the rationally intelligible. To the influence of Caravaggio, whose revolutionary work he became acquainted with in Italy, Rubens owes this ease in creating a moving scene, the concentration of all forces in a single action. Against the dynamic, almost overstrained composition, in which nine men with a final flex of their muscles struggle to lift the Cross of Christ from the diagonal, is set the altarpiece, The Taking Down of the Cross, with its statuesque completeness and calm poise, commissioned a little later by the Antwerp Guild of Archers. The stark differences between the two works are not only explained by the subject matter; they also mark two poles in the young master's oeuvre - Baroque and Classicism - from whose fusion his individual style would later develop.
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