Peter Paul Rubens The Apotheosis of Henry IV and the Proclamation of the Regency of Marie de Medici on the 14th of May Painting ID:: 3672 Peter Paul Rubens32.jpg
The Apotheosis of Henry IV and the Proclamation of the Regency of Marie de Medici on the 14th of May 1622-24
Musee du Louvre, Paris
Peter Paul Rubens The Raising of the Cross Painting ID:: 3674 Peter Paul Rubens34.jpg
The Raising of the Cross 1620-21
Musee du Louvre, Paris
Peter Paul Rubens Perseus Liberating Andromeda Painting ID:: 3675 Peter Paul Rubens35.jpg
Perseus Liberating Andromeda 1620's
The Hermitage, St.Petersburg
Peter Paul Rubens The Rape of the Daughters of Leucippus Painting ID:: 3676 Peter Paul Rubens36.jpg
The Rape of the Daughters of Leucippus 1618
Alte Pinakothek, Munich
Peter Paul Rubens Christ and Mary Magdalene Painting ID:: 3677 Peter Paul Rubens37.jpg
Christ and Mary Magdalene 1618 A
lte Pinakothek, Munich
Peter Paul Rubens The Union of Earth and Water Painting ID:: 3678 Peter Paul Rubens38.jpg
The Union of Earth and Water 1618
The Hermitage, St.Petersburg
Peter Paul Rubens Venus at a Mirror Painting ID:: 3679 Peter Paul Rubens39.jpg
Venus at a Mirror 1615
Sammlung Furst von Liechenstein, Vaduz
Peter Paul Rubens Statue of Ceres Painting ID:: 3680 Peter Paul Rubens40.jpg
Statue of Ceres 1615
The Hermitage, St.Petersburg
Peter Paul Rubens Marchesa Brigida Spinola Doria Painting ID:: 3681 Peter Paul Rubens41.jpg
Marchesa Brigida Spinola Doria 1606
The National Gallery of Art, Washington DC
Peter Paul Rubens The Fall of Phaeton Painting ID:: 3682 Peter Paul Rubens42.jpg
The Fall of Phaeton 1605
The National Gallery of Art, Washington DC
Peter Paul Rubens Equestrian Portrait of the Duke of Lerma Painting ID:: 3683 Peter Paul Rubens43.jpg
Equestrian Portrait of the Duke of Lerma 1603
Museo del Prado, Madrid
Peter Paul Rubens Portrait of a Man jjj Painting ID:: 3684 Peter Paul Rubens44.jpg
Portrait of a Man jjj 1597
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Peter Paul Rubens The Village Wedding Painting ID:: 3685 Peter Paul Rubens45.jpg
The Village Wedding 1640
Musee du Louvre, Paris
Peter Paul Rubens Self Portrait kjuii Painting ID:: 3686 Peter Paul Rubens46.jpg
Self Portrait kjuii 1628
Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence
Peter Paul Rubens The Prophet Elijah Receiving Bread and Water from an Angel Painting ID:: 3687 Peter Paul Rubens47.jpg
The Prophet Elijah Receiving Bread and Water from an Angel 1625-28
Musee Bonnat, Bayonne
Peter Paul Rubens Isabella Brandt Painting ID:: 3688 Peter Paul Rubens48.jpg
Isabella Brandt 1625-26
Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence
Peter Paul Rubens The Straw Hat Painting ID:: 3689 Peter Paul Rubens49.jpg
The Straw Hat 1625
National Gallery, London
Peter Paul Rubens The Maid of Honor to the Infant Isabella Painting ID:: 3690 Peter Paul Rubens50.jpg
The Maid of Honor to the Infant Isabella 1620's
The Hermitage, St.Petersburg
Peter Paul Rubens The Triumph of the Church Painting ID:: 3691 Peter Paul Rubens51.jpg
The Triumph of the Church Museo del Prado, Madrid
Peter Paul Rubens Portrait of a Man (MK01) Painting ID:: 20104 new5/Peter Paul Rubens-285769.jpg
Portrait of a Man (MK01) 1597.
Rubens\\\' first signde and dated work,
Oil on copper;
21.6x14.6cm,
81 /2x5 3/4in
Metropolitan
Museum of Art,New York
Peter Paul Rubens Venus at the Mirror (MK01) Painting ID:: 20103 new5/Peter Paul Rubens-439387.jpg
Venus at the Mirror (MK01) 1613-14
Oil on panel;
124x98cm
Peter Paul Rubens Portraits of (MK01) Painting ID:: 20105 new5/Peter Paul Rubens-285227.jpg
Portraits of (MK01) BartbolomeusJacob Claesz,van Utrecht
Grandfatber of Peter Paul
Rubens and Barbara Arents,
Grandmotber of Peter Paul Rubens
1530
Oil on panel;
57x38cm
22 3/8x15in
Rubenshuis,Antwerp
Peter Paul Rubens The Entombment of Christ (mk01) Painting ID:: 20127 new5/Peter Paul Rubens-853796.jpg
The Entombment of Christ (mk01) 1603-4
Oil on canvas;
300x203cm,
118 1/8x79 7/8in,
Vatican
Museums,Rome
Peter Paul Rubens View of Antwerp witb the River (MK01) Painting ID:: 20106 new5/Peter Paul Rubens-669769.jpg
View of Antwerp witb the River (MK01) ScbeldtAbel Grimmer and Hendrik van Balen ,
C.1600.
Oil on panel;
37x44cm
14 1/2x17 1/4in
Koninklijk
Museum voor
Schone Kunsten,Antwerp
Peter Paul Rubens The Artist with the Van Noort Family (MK01) Painting ID:: 20107 new5/Peter Paul Rubens-638656.jpg
The Artist with the Van Noort Family (MK01) Jacob Jordaens
c1615-16
Oil on canvas;
130.5x159.cm
51 3/8x62 5/8in
Staatliche
Gemaldegalerie,Kassel
Peter Paul Rubens Fohn the Baptist Preacbing (MK01) Painting ID:: 20109 new5/Peter Paul Rubens-286598.jpg
Fohn the Baptist Preacbing (MK01) ,Adam van Noort
1601
Oil on panel;
97x155cm
38 1/8x61in
Rubenshuis;Antwerp.
Peter Paul Rubens Christ and the Penitent (mk01) Painting ID:: 20117 new5/Peter Paul Rubens-268656.jpg
Christ and the Penitent (mk01) SinnersOtto van Veen
1605-7
Oil on panel;
269x214cm
Hessisches
Landesmusem,
Mainz.
Peter Paul Rubens The Artist and his Famil (mk01) Painting ID:: 20118 new5/Peter Paul Rubens-452988.jpg
The Artist and his Famil (mk01) Otto van Veen
1584
Oil on canvas;
176x250cm
69 1/4x98 3/8in
Musee du Louvre,Paris
Peter Paul Rubens Adam and Eve (mk01) Painting ID:: 20121 new5/Peter Paul Rubens-574435.jpg
Adam and Eve (mk01) C.1598-1600
Oil on panel;
1803.158.8cm
71x62 1/2in
Rubenshuis,
Antwerp
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.