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Peter Paul Rubens
The Adoration of the Magi
1617-18
Musee des Beaux Arts, Lyons
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Peter Paul Rubens
Adoration of the Magi
King's College Chapel, Cambridge, UK
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Peter Paul Rubens
The Deposition
1612
Antwerp Cathedral
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Peter Paul Rubens
The Four Quarters of the Globe
1612-14
Art History Museum, Vienna
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Peter Paul Rubens
Roman Charity
1612
The Hermitage, St.Petersburg
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Peter Paul Rubens
Rubens with His First Wife, Isabella Brandt, in the Honeysuckle Bower
1609-10
Alte Pinakothek, Munich
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Peter Paul Rubens
The Four Philosophers
1611
]Palazzo Pitti, Florence
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Peter Paul Rubens
St George and the Dragon
1606-07
Museo del Prado, Madrid
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Peter Paul Rubens
Deborah Kip and her Children
The National Gallery of Art, Washington DC
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Peter Paul Rubens
Crocodile and Hippopotamus Hunt
1615-16
Alte Pinakothek, Munich
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Peter Paul Rubens
The Death of Seneca
1615
Museo del Prado, Madrid
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Peter Paul Rubens
The Garden of Love
1630
Museo del Prado, Madrid
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Peter Paul Rubens
The Judgment of Paris
1639
Museo del Prado, Madrid
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Peter Paul Rubens
A Peasant Dance
Museo del Prado, Madrid
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Peter Paul Rubens
Landscape with a Watering Place
Musee du Louvre, Paris
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Peter Paul Rubens
The Abduction of Ganymede
Museo del Prado, Madrid
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Peter Paul Rubens
Bacchus
1638-40
The Hermitage, St.Petersburg
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Peter Paul Rubens
The Three Graces
1636-38
Museo del Prado, Madrid
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Peter Paul Rubens
Helene Fourment and her Children, Claire-Jeanne and Francois
1636-37
Musee du Louvre, Paris
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Peter Paul Rubens
The Judgment of Paris
1635-38
The National Gallery of Art, Washington DC
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| Peter Paul Rubens
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Flemish Baroque Era Painter, 1577-1640
Peter Paul Rubens (June 28, 1577 ?C May 30, 1640) was a prolific seventeenth-century Flemish Baroque painter, and a proponent of an exuberant Baroque style that emphasized movement, color, and sensuality. He 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 which produced paintings popular with nobility and art collectors throughout Europe, Rubens was a classically-educated humanist scholar, art collector, and diplomat who was knighted by both Philip IV, king of Spain, and Charles I, king of England.
Rubens was a prolific artist. His commissioned works were mostly religious subjects, "history" paintings, which included 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 Joyous Entry into Antwerp by the Cardinal-Infante Ferdinand in 1635.
His drawings are mostly extremely forceful but not detailed; he also made great use of oil sketches as preparatory studies. 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.
His fondness of painting full-figured women gave rise to the terms 'Rubensian' or 'Rubenesque' for plus-sized women. The term 'Rubensiaans' is also commonly used in Dutch to denote such women.
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