Minerva Protects Pax from Mars (Peace and War), c.1629/30 by Peter Paul Rubens
Canvas Print - 3479-RPP
Location: National Gallery, London, United KingdomOriginal Size: 203.5 x 298 cm
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Painting Information
From the summer of 1629 to the spring of 1630, Rubens stayed in London on the orders of King Philip IV of Spain to negotiate a peace between the two countries. In an allegorical painting he painted there, which he gave to King Charles I of England, the artist gave expression to the hopes and expectations he associated with his diplomatic mission: the goods of peace must not be threatened by war, and so behind the naked goddess Pax (some say Ceres) stands Minerva with a helmet, trying to ward off the untamed god of war, Mars.
In the right half of the painting are several children, among them the one identified as the god of marriage, Hymen, torch in hand, crowning a girl as a sign that marriage can only flourish in peace. Among the studies painted in kind for this group is the fine drawing of a girl in Weimar. Already presented as a whole figure, we recognize in the painting the sweet-faced child with the large eyes between Hymen and the older girl.
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