Landscape with Philemon and Baucis
1620 Kunsthistorisches Museum
About this artwork
This large-scale oil painting depicts the mythological story of Philemon and Baucis welcoming the gods Jupiter and Mercury in the form of a dramatic, stormy landscape. It is currently housed in the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna.
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Based on Ovid's Metamorphoses, this painting captures the moment the elderly couple Philemon and Baucis offer hospitality to the gods in disguise during a catastrophic flood. Rubens masterfully uses the intense, turbulent weather to reflect the divine power of the gods, contrasting the tiny figures against the overwhelming force of nature.
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Landscape with Philemon and Baucis
Peter Paul Rubens, 1620
