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Rubens

Peter Paul Rubens
Sir Peter Paul Rubens - Portrait of the Artist - Google Art Project.jpg
Self-portrait, 1623, Royal Collection
Born Peter Paul Rubens
(1577-06-28)28 June 1577
Siegen, Nassau-Dillenburg, Holy Roman Empire (now North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany)
Died 30 May 1640(1640-05-30) (aged 62)
Antwerp, Spanish Netherlands (now Belgium)
Nationality Flemish
Education Tobias Verhaecht
Adam van Noort
Otto van Veen
Known for Painting, Printmaking
Movement Flemish Baroque
Baroque
Signature
Rubens autograph.png

Sir Peter Paul Rubens (/ˈrbənz/;Dutch: [ˈrybə(n)s]; 28 June 1577 – 30 May 1640) was a Flemish/Netherlandish draughtsman and painter. He is widely considered as the most notable artist of Flemish Baroque art school. A proponent of an extravagant Baroque style that emphasized movement, colour, and sensuality, Rubens is well known for his Counter-Reformation altarpieces, portraits, landscapes, and history paintings of mythological and allegorical subjects.

In addition to running a large studio in Antwerp that produced paintings popular with nobility and art collectors throughout Europe, Rubens was a classically educated humanist scholar and diplomat who was knighted by both Philip IV of Spain and Charles I of England. Rubens was a prolific artist. The catalogue of his works by Michael Jaffé lists 1,403 pieces, excluding numerous copies made in his workshop.

His commissioned works were mostly "history paintings", which included religious and mythological subjects, and hunt scenes. He painted portraits, especially of friends, and self-portraits, and in later life painted several landscapes. Rubens designed tapestries and prints, as well as his own house. He also oversaw the ephemeral decorations of the royal entry into Antwerp by the Cardinal-Infante Ferdinand in 1635.


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