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Peter Paul Rubens: Woman with a snake (Hygeia or Cleopatra)  wikidata:Q111239437 reasonator:Q111239437
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Peter Paul Rubens  (1577–1640)  wikidata:Q5599 s:it:Autore:Pieter Paul Rubens q:en:Peter Paul Rubens
 
Peter Paul Rubens
Alternative names
Rubens, Pierre Paul Rubens, Pieter Paul Rubens, Sir Peter Paul Rubens
Description Flemish painter, sculptor, drawer and printmaker
Date of birth/death 28 June 1577 Edit this at Wikidata 30 May 1640 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death Siegen Antwerp
Work period 16th century
date QS:P,+1550-00-00T00:00:00Z/7
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Work location
Antwerp (1589-1600), Mantua (9 May 1600-1608), Spain (1603), Antwerp (1608-1640), Netherlands (1612), Paris (23 May 1623-29 June 1623, 4 February 1625-9 June 1625), Calais (November 1626), Paris (December 1626), City of Brussels (1627), Netherlands (10 July 1627-6 August 1627), Spain (26 August 1628-29 April 1629), London (18 May 1629-23 March 1630), City of Brussels (1631), Netherlands (November 1631), Affligem (September 1634)
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artist QS:P170,Q5599
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Title
Cleopatra
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Hygieia
)
Object type painting
object_type QS:P31,Q3305213
Genre mythological painting Edit this at Wikidata
Description
English: A woman feeding a snake that is wrapped around her left arm
Date circa 1615
date QS:P571,+1615-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902
Medium oil on oak wood
Dimensions height: 130 cm (51.1 in); width: 74 cm (29.1 in)
dimensions QS:P2048,130U174728
dimensions QS:P2049,74U174728
institution QS:P195,Q1419555
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Notes While traditionally identified as Cleopatra, it probably actually shows the Greek goddess Hygieia, compare the near-identical painting in the Detroit Institute of Arts.
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