The Battle of the Amazons | |
Artist: | Peter Paul Rubens |
Material: | oil on wood |
Height Metric: | 121 |
Width Metric: | 165.5 |
Metric Unit: | cm |
Imperial Unit: | in |
City: | Munich |
Museum: | Alte Pinakothek |
The Battle of the Amazons or Amazonomachia is an oil on wood painting produced around 1618.[1] 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.[2] It is in the collection of the Alte Pinakothek in Munich.[3]
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.