The Battle of the Amazons or Amazonomachia is an oil on wood painting produced around 1618.Peter Paul Rubens, Battle between horsemen at the Netherlands Institute for Art History It shows an amazonomachy, i.e. a mythological battle between the ancient Greeks and the Amazons, a nation of all-female warriors.
The work by Rubens shows his huge admiration for Leonardo da Vinci's Battle of Anghiari, of which he owned a copy which he had touched up.M. Jaffé, Rubens è un italiano, in Rubens. Catalogo completo. Milano, Rizzoli, 1987, pp. 66–84. . It is in the collection of the Alte Pinakothek in Munich.Peter Paul Rubens (1577-1640), Die Amazonenschlacht, um 1618 at the Alte Pinakothek site
This painting was formerly in the collection of Cornelis van der Geest and can be seen in two paintings of his art gallery in the 1630s by Willem van Haecht.
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