Honeysuckle Bower

Honeysuckle Bower

Infobox Painting|



title=The Honeysuckle Bower
artist=Pieter Paul Rubens
year=ca. 1609
type=Oil on canvas
height=178
width=136.5
city=Munich
museum=Alte Pinakothek

The Honeysuckle Bower (ca. 1609) is a self-portrait of the Flemish Baroque painter Peter Paul Rubens (1577–1640) and his first wife Isabella Brant (1591–1626). They wed on October 3, 1609, in St. Michael's Abbey in Antwerp, shortly after he had returned to the city after eight years in Italy. [Kristin Lohse Belkin, "Rubens", London: Phadon (1998): 95-98. ISBN 0-7148-3412-2]

The painting is a full-length double portrait of the couple seated in a of honeysuckle. They are surrounded by love and marriage symbolism: the honeysuckle and garden are both traditional symbols of love, and the holding of right hands ("junctio dextrarum") represents union through marriage. [Martin Schawe, "Alte Pinakothek Munich", 2nd. ed., Munich: Prestel (2002): 76. ISBN 3-7913-2239-7] [Hans Vlieghe, "Flemish Art and Architecture 1585-1700", New Haven: Yale University Press (1998): 121-2. ISBN 0-3000-7038-1] Additionally, Rubens depicts himself as an aristocratic gentleman with his left hand on the hilt of his sword. [Belkin, 98.]

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