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Date : between 1629 and 1630
Sizes : 2.98 m x 2.04 m
Material : Oil on canvas
Acquisition : Presented by the Duke of Sutherland (1828)
| Peace and War
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Flemish and Northern Painting
Painting
Area related
England
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Pax (Peace) presses milk from her breast to feed the child Plutus, god of wealth, and a satyr offers a cornucopia overflowing with the fruits of peace to children in the foreground.
The two women on the left stand for the benefits of peace: prosperity and the arts. The armored Minerva, goddess of wisdom and the arts, chases away Mars, god of war and the fury Alecto, together with a phantom in the sky who spits fire and destruction.
A diplomat as well as an artist, Rubens presented this painting to King Charles I when he was in England negotiating a peace treaty between England and Spain.
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