Morte di Decio Mure after Rubens

Dairo Vargas · 2025
Mixed media on canvas · 188 × 160 cm

Dairo Vargas, Morte di Decio Mure after Rubens (2025), expressive contemporary painting of a dramatic battle with horses and figures.

This painting revisits the dramatic visual language of Peter Paul Rubens, exploring the relationship between historical imagery and contemporary painting. Through layered gestures, fragmented figures and expressive colour, Vargas reinterprets a Baroque battle composition in his own visual language.