Today we began discussing Baroque art in Flanders and Holland. The first artist we learned about was Peter Paul Rubens, a highly educated man working in Antwerp. We looked at his triptych, The Elevation of the Cross. A particularly notable feature of this painting is its scale; it was originally over 35 feet high. We then looked at his painting of Marie de’ Medici. It seems like Rubens and Marie de’ Medici were quite close; she stayed with him in Flanders during her exile. We also examined the works of Anthony van Dyck, Frans Hals, and Rembrandt van Rijn.