Peter Paul Rubens Prometheus Bound Painting ID:: 34471 new10/REMBRANDT Harmenszoon van Rijn-684289.jpg
Prometheus Bound mk93
1618
Oil on canvas
95 1/2x82 1/2
Philadelphia Museum of Art
Peter Paul Rubens Roman Charity Painting ID:: 38414 new11/Peter Paul Rubens-929565.jpg
Roman Charity 1625
Oil on canvas, 155 x 186 cm
Peter Paul Rubens Castle Park Painting ID:: 38739 new12/Peter Paul Rubens-699344.jpg
Castle Park mk141
1632-34
Oil on wood
52.5x97cm
Peter Paul Rubens Prince of Mantua Painting ID:: 39637 new12/Peter Paul Rubens-332277.jpg
Prince of Mantua mk150
c.1604/5
Canvas
67x51.5cm
Peter Paul Rubens Miracles of St Francis Xavier Painting ID:: 39658 new12/Peter Paul Rubens-283286.jpg
Miracles of St Francis Xavier mk150
c.1616/17
Oak
104.5x72.5cm
Peter Paul Rubens Stormy lanscape with Philemon and Baucis Painting ID:: 39659 new12/Peter Paul Rubens-338287.jpg
Stormy lanscape with Philemon and Baucis mk150
c.1620/25
Oak
146x208.5cm
Peter Paul Rubens The Four great rivers of Antiquity Painting ID:: 39660 new12/Peter Paul Rubens-623835.jpg
The Four great rivers of Antiquity mk150
c.1615
Canvas
208x283cm
Peter Paul Rubens Feast of Venus Painting ID:: 39661 new12/Peter Paul Rubens-759375.jpg
Feast of Venus mk150
c.1635/7
Canvas
217x350cm
Peter Paul Rubens Meetin of King Ferdinand of Hungary and the Cardinal Infante Ferdinand before the Battle of Nordingen Painting ID:: 39662 new12/Peter Paul Rubens-387563.jpg
Meetin of King Ferdinand of Hungary and the Cardinal Infante Ferdinand before the Battle of Nordingen mk150
1634/5
Canvas
328x388cm
Peter Paul Rubens The little fur Painting ID:: 39664 new12/Peter Paul Rubens-659577.jpg
The little fur mk150
c.1635/40
Oak
176x83cm
Peter Paul Rubens Self-Portrait Painting ID:: 39665 new12/Peter Paul Rubens-247588.jpg
Self-Portrait mk150
c.1638//40
Canvas
109.5x85cm
Peter Paul Rubens Descent from the Cross Painting ID:: 40408 new16/Peter Paul Rubens-798666.jpg
Descent from the Cross mk156
1610-11
Oil on canvas
460x340cm
Peter Paul Rubens The Rape of the Daughters of Leucippus Painting ID:: 40420 new16/Peter Paul Rubens-233372.jpg
The Rape of the Daughters of Leucippus mk156
1617-18
Oil on canvas
222x209cm
Peter Paul Rubens The Landing of Marie de-Medici at Marseille Painting ID:: 40422 new16/Peter Paul Rubens-668455.jpg
The Landing of Marie de-Medici at Marseille mk156
c.1623
Oil on canvas
394x295cm
Peter Paul Rubens Bathsheba at the Fountain Painting ID:: 40446 new16/Peter Paul Rubens-735247.jpg
Bathsheba at the Fountain mk156
1635
Oil on oak panel
175x126cm
Peter Paul Rubens The Garden of Love Painting ID:: 40449 new16/Peter Paul Rubens-674334.jpg
The Garden of Love mk156
c.1633
Oil on canvas
198x283cm
Peter Paul Rubens The Statue of Ceres Painting ID:: 41019 new16/Peter Paul Rubens-853498.jpg
The Statue of Ceres mk159
c.1615
Oil on panel
90.5x65.5cm
Peter Paul Rubens Portrait of a Lady-in-Waiting to the Infanta Isabella Painting ID:: 41020 new16/Peter Paul Rubens-343984.jpg
Portrait of a Lady-in-Waiting to the Infanta Isabella mk159
c.1625
Oil on panel
63.5x47.5cm
Peter Paul Rubens Landscape iwth a Rainbow Painting ID:: 41021 new16/Peter Paul Rubens-528287.jpg
Landscape iwth a Rainbow mk159
Oil on canvas
transferred from panel
86x130cm
Peter Paul Rubens Bacchus Painting ID:: 41022 new16/Peter Paul Rubens-855886.jpg
Bacchus mk159
Oil on canvas
transferred from panel
191x161.3cm
Peter Paul Rubens Venus and Adonis Painting ID:: 41328 new16/Peter Paul Rubens-447692.jpg
Venus and Adonis mk161
oil on canvas
77x94
Peter Paul Rubens The Sacred Family with Holy Isabel Painting ID:: 42032 new16/Peter Paul Rubens-996756.jpg
The Sacred Family with Holy Isabel mk166
Toward 1615 I Wave on cloth 114x88cm Galeria
Palace Pitti Florence
Peter Paul Rubens The Asuncion of Maria al Sky Painting ID:: 42046 new16/Peter Paul Rubens-742563.jpg
The Asuncion of Maria al Sky mk166
First half of the 17th century I Wave on Natural History
Museum cloth, Vienna
Peter Paul Rubens The Coronacion of the Virgin one Painting ID:: 42047 new16/Peter Paul Rubens-384852.jpg
The Coronacion of the Virgin one mk166
1609
I Wave on cloth 106x78cm
Peter Paul Rubens Aparicion of Maria to San IIdefonso Painting ID:: 42048 new16/Peter Paul Rubens-959859.jpg
Aparicion of Maria to San IIdefonso mk166
1630-1632
I Wave on Natural History Museum cloth Vienna
Peter Paul Rubens The robbery of the daughters of Leucippus Painting ID:: 42691 new16/Peter Paul Rubens-379742.jpg
The robbery of the daughters of Leucippus MK169
ca.1616-17 Shut down 222.3x209cm Alte Pinakothek Munchen
Peter Paul Rubens The Wounds Van St. Franciscus Xaverius Painting ID:: 42692 new16/Peter Paul Rubens-897765.jpg
The Wounds Van St. Franciscus Xaverius MK169
1616-17 Shut down 535x395cm
Peter Paul Rubens Landscape with Rainbow Painting ID:: 42695 new16/Peter Paul Rubens-478882.jpg
Landscape with Rainbow MK169
ca. 1635 Panel 94.6x123.2cm
Peter Paul Rubens Portrait of Isabella Brant Painting ID:: 42697 new16/Peter Paul Rubens-653467.jpg
Portrait of Isabella Brant MK169
ca. 1622 Black, red and white chalk, light plants on light brown paper, eyes with pen and black ink accentuated
38.1x29.5cm British Museum, Rewarded
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.