The Rainbow Landscape [SEP] creator
The Rainbow Landscape
The Rainbow Landscape or Landscape with Rainbow is a c.1636 landscape painting by Peter Paul Rubens, now in the Wallace Collection in London.
External links.
- Catalogue entry
heads and a blue chevron with a curved upper edge, is based on the arms of the first Lord Mayor of Sydney, Thomas Hughes, who first suggested that the city obtain a grant of arms.
The shield is supported by a serpent and a coiled rope. The serpent, in blue with white and gold markings, represents the Rainbow Serpent, a creator-being said to have formed the landscape in the Dreamtime as it travelled through the country. Its markings are based on those used by the Eora people,