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The Elevation of the Cross, c.1610/11 by Peter Paul Rubens
Canvas Print - 3113-RPP

Location: Antwerp Cathedral, Belgium
Original Size: 462 × 339 cm

The Elevation of the Cross by Rubens (c.1610/11) is reproduced as a museum-quality giclée canvas print. Printed with archival inks on 400 g/m² canvas and hand-varnished for UV protection, it can be made in any size up to 59.1 × 40.8 in, scaled proportionally, with optional framing. Free worldwide shipping available; unframed prints ship in 2 workdays, framed in 7 to 8. Guaranteed 100-year color durability.

The Elevation of the Cross by Peter Paul Rubens, c.1610/11 - canvas print
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Giclée Canvas Print | $64.48 USD

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The size you set is the printed image, the part you see once the canvas is stretched. Beyond that size we add 1.2 in of blank canvas on every side, at no extra cost, so the stretcher bars have something to grip. A 21.7 × 15 in print therefore arrives as 24 × 17.3 in. Both numbers are shown in Your Selection above and change with the slider.

Yes. The slider covers every size up to 59.1 × 40.8 in, always in the proportions of the original. If you need something larger, or a size that has to fit a frame you already own, write to us with the title and the dimensions and we will tell you what is possible. Every print is made to order, so there is usually a way.

Because the original is an oil painting on canvas. We match the print medium to the original: oil paintings go on canvas, works on paper go on fine art paper. Our canvas is natural cotton, 400 g/m² Canvas, acid-free and pH neutral, and its woven texture gives the most natural impression of Rubens's original oil painting. The finish is satin/gloss, which keeps the depth of the dark tones the way varnish does on a painting in a museum; a matte canvas looks dull and pale next to it. More about our print media.

Start with the original, which measures 462 × 339 cm. A print at or near that size reads the way the artist judged it. Printing smaller is easy; enlarging a small original changes its character. For the wall, above a sofa or a sideboard aim for two thirds to three quarters of the furniture width, and hang the center at eye level. Cut paper to size and tape it to the wall before you order. The original hangs in Antwerp Cathedral, Belgium. Full size guide.
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About the Painting

Rubens painted the famous triptych "The Exaltation of the Cross", of which only the middle part is presented here, for the church of St. Walpurga". The impact of the imposing altarpiece, even in its sheer size, on the contemporary viewer, accustomed to the restrained language and forms of the Mannerists, must have been truly stunning. By transforming the biblical narrative into a dramatic scene, Rubens makes the viewer - fully in the spirit of the Counter-Reformation - directly feel and empathise with the event, bringing the spiritual into the realm of the rationally intelligible. To the influence of Caravaggio, whose revolutionary work he became acquainted with in Italy, Rubens owes this ease in creating a moving scene, the concentration of all forces in a single action. Against the dynamic, almost overstrained composition, in which nine men with a final flex of their muscles struggle to lift the Cross of Christ from the diagonal, is set the altarpiece, The Taking Down of the Cross, with its statuesque completeness and calm poise, commissioned a little later by the Antwerp Guild of Archers. The stark differences between the two works are not only explained by the subject matter; they also mark two poles in the young master's oeuvre - Baroque and Classicism - from whose fusion his individual style would later develop.

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