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Garden of Love - "Сад наслаждений"
TASKS
I. Read the text. Mark the following statements true or false. 
1. Peter Paul Rubens was the most educated person of his time.
2. Rubens was fond of High Renaissance masters.
3. As Rubens's style matured, it took on a richness of colour.
4. Rubens's figures were disembodied and mystical.
5. In 1621-25 Rubens carried out a splendid commission from Louis XIII.
6. Rubens depicted the major Roman gods in the portrait of Maria de' Medici.
II. How well have you read? Can you answer the following questions?
1. When and where did Rubens first emerge on the international scene? Where was Rubens
educated?
2. What could Rubens allegedly do at one and the same time? How did Rubens produce his
works of art?
3. What is represented in the Raising of the Cross? What kind of painting is it? Where can the
power of Rubens be seen? What is depicted in this painting?
5. How did the Michelangelo and the Titian influence Rubens's works of art? In what way did
Rubens's works differ from the masterpieces of the Renaissance masters?
6. What do twenty one large canvases present? What is the best painting? What does it portray?
What gods and goddesses are depicted there? How are they shown? What do they symbolize? What
makes this painting one of the happiest of Rubens's allegorical works? How long did Rubens
support the dowager Queen of France? What did it show?
7. What is represented in the Garden of Love? What received its full embodiment in this
picture?
III. i. Give Ritssian equivalents of the following phrases:
to exercise a great stylistic authority; a page to a countess; a never-ending stream of works;
colour sketches on wood; a helmet and a shield; to emerge on the international scene; indefatigable
energy; to raise the Cross; to make copies after Roman sculpture; the superhuman energy; the
central panel of a triptych; to carry out a commission; dowager Queen of France; to be protected at
every point by the divinities; a ceremonial gallery in the palace; conipositional inventiveness;
Classical learning; the divine intervention; the years of exile; executioners; a tribute to; a Baroque
artist; to receive its embodiment in; the Baroque testament; the energy of the composition; final
coating; the redeeming power of love; Caravaggio's psychological interests; a complete picture in
itself; a pyramid of struggling figures.
ii. Give English equivalents of the following phrases:
появиться на международной арене; монументальные произведения; годы ссылки;
композиционная изобретательность; классическое образование; неуемная энергия; поль-
зоваться большим авторитетом; нескончаемый поток работ; быть защищенным со всех
сторон божествами; самостоятельная картина; палачи; сделать множество рисунков;
копировать древнеримские статуи; центральная часть триптиха; выполнить заказ; вклад в;
могущественный заказчик; парадная галерея дворца; божественное вмешательство; получить
воплощение в; напоминать фигуры Микеланджело; искупляющая сила любви; богатство
цвета; вдовствующая королева; цветные наброски на дереве.
iii. Make up questions with the given phrases.
iv. Arrange the following in the pairs of synonyms.
a) regent; to recount; testament; canvas; splendid; executioner;
b) murderer; queen; magnificent; to tell; picture; will.
IV. Here are descriptions of some of Rubens's works of art. Match them up to the given titles..
1. Cupids fly above the scene with bows, arrows, and torches,                   
2. Grotesque figures rain down from Heaven.
3. The executioners  form a colossal pyramid.
4. The gods advise the King to accept her as his second bride.
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