Peter Paul Rubens
Sir Peter Paul Rubens ( , ; 28 June 1577 – 30 May 1640) was a Flemish artist and diplomat. He is considered the most influential artist of the Flemish Baroque tradition. Rubens's highly charged compositions reference erudite aspects of classical and Christian history. His unique and immensely popular Baroque style emphasized movement, colour, and sensuality, which followed the immediate, dramatic artistic style promoted in the Counter-Reformation. Rubens was a painter producing altarpieces, portraits, landscapes, and history paintings of mythological and allegorical subjects. He was also a prolific designer of cartoons for the Flemish tapestry workshops and of frontispieces for the publishers in Antwerp.He was born and raised in Germany, to parents who were refugees from Antwerp in the Duchy of Brabant in the Southern Netherlands (modern-day Belgium), returning to Antwerp at about 12. In addition to running a large workshop 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 of Austria in 1635. He wrote a book with illustrations of the palaces in Genoa, which was published in 1622 as ''Palazzi di Genova''. The book was influential in spreading the Genoese palace style in Northern Europe. Rubens was an avid art collector and had one of the largest collections of art and books in Antwerp. He was also an art dealer and is known to have sold an important number of art objects to George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham.
He was one of the last major artists to make consistent use of wooden panels as a support medium, even for very large works, but he used canvas as well, especially when the work needed to be sent a long distance. For altarpieces he sometimes painted on slate to reduce reflection problems. Provided by Wikipedia
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Rubens; selected drawings / by Rubens, Peter Paul, 1577-1640
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The drawings of Rubens / by Rubens, Peter Paul, 1577-1640
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Peter Paul Rubens, a touch of brilliance : oil sketches and related works from the State Hermitage Museum and the Courtauld Institute Gallery. by Rubens, Peter Paul, 1577-1640
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Palazzi di Genova / by Rubens, Peter Paul, 1577-1640
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Rubens : drawings and sketches : catalogue of an exhibition at the Department of Prints and Drawings in the British Museum, 1977 / by Rubens, Peter Paul, 1577-1640
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Palazzi di Genova / The Palazzi of Genoa / Pietro Paulo Rubens ; introduction and descriptions by Fiorella Caraceni Poleggi ; [English language consultancy, Justin Michael Rosenbur... by Rubens, Peter Paul, 1577-1640
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Olieverfschetsen van Rubens : [tentoonstelling] Museum Boymans Rotterdam, 1953. by Rubens, Peter Paul, 1577-1640
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Rubens : Lille, Palais des beaux-arts, 6 March-14 June 2004. by Rubens, Peter Paul, 1577-1640
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Rubens (1577-1640) / by Rubens, Peter Paul, 1577-1640
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P. P. Rubens : des meisters gemälde in 538 abbildungen / by Rubens, Peter Paul, 1577-1640
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Die landschaften von Peter Paul Rubens / by Rubens, Peter Paul, 1577-1640
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The battle of the Amazons / by Rubens, Peter Paul, 1577-1640
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Letters / by Rubens, Peter Paul, 1577-1640
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Peter Paul Rubens / by Rubens, Peter Paul, 1577-1640
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Pierre-Paul Rubens / by Rubens, Peter Paul, 1577-1640
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Vida de san Ignacio de Loyola en imágenes : edición facsímil / by Rubens, Peter Paul, 1577-1640
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Rubens--selected drawings / by Rubens, Peter Paul, 1577-1640
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Rubens / by Rubens, Peter Paul, 1577-1640
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Herinneringen aan P. P. Rubens / by Baudouin, Frans
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Rubens and Italy / by Jaffé, Andrew Michael
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