Peter Paul Rubens Portrait of Thomas Howard Painting ID:: 96423 new26/Peter Paul Rubens-478644.jpg
Portrait of Thomas Howard 1629 - 30
Medium oil on canvas
Dimensions 67 x 54 cm
cyf
Peter Paul Rubens Peter Paul Rubens Painting ID:: 96733 new26/Peter Paul Rubens-247474.jpg
Peter Paul Rubens 131.2 x 94.2 cm
cyf
Peter Paul Rubens Ceres and Pan Painting ID:: 96880 new26/Peter Paul Rubens-859784.jpg
Ceres and Pan 1615(1615)
Medium oil on canvas
Dimensions 223 X 162 cm
cyf
Peter Paul Rubens The Reconciliation of Jacob and Esau Painting ID:: 96999 new26/Peter Paul Rubens-375534.jpg
The Reconciliation of Jacob and Esau oil on panel, at the National Galleries of Scotland
Date 1624(1624)
cyf
Peter Paul Rubens Charles Quint Painting ID:: 97095 new26/Peter Paul Rubens-774585.jpg
Charles Quint circa 1603(1603)
Medium oil on canvas
Dimensions 75 X 55.5 cm
cyf
Peter Paul Rubens Orpheus and Eurydice Painting ID:: 97117 new26/Peter Paul Rubens-797999.jpg
Orpheus and Eurydice 1636-1638
Medium oil on canvas
Dimensions 194 X 245 cm
cyf
Peter Paul Rubens Ceres and Two Nymphs with a Cornucopia Painting ID:: 97217 new26/Peter Paul Rubens-585694.jpg
Ceres and Two Nymphs with a Cornucopia 1608(1608)
Medium oil on canvas
Dimensions 22 X 17 in
cyf
Peter Paul Rubens Portrait of prince Wladyslaw Vasa in Flemish costume Painting ID:: 97243 new26/Peter Paul Rubens-944938.jpg
Portrait of prince Wladyslaw Vasa in Flemish costume circa 1624(1624)
Medium oil on canvas
Dimensions 116.2 X 85.8 cm
cyf
Peter Paul Rubens Infant Christ and St John the Babtist in a landscape Painting ID:: 97584 new26/Peter Paul Rubens-594393.jpg
Infant Christ and St John the Babtist in a landscape after 1615(1615)
Medium oil on canvas
cyf
Peter Paul Rubens Self Portrait with a Hat Painting ID:: 97622 new26/Peter Paul Rubens-665943.jpg
Self Portrait with a Hat between 1623(1623) and 1625(1625)
Medium oil on panel
cyf
Peter Paul Rubens Study Heads of an Old Man Painting ID:: 97655 new26/Peter Paul Rubens-635789.jpg
Study Heads of an Old Man 1612, Dayton Art Institute
cyf
Peter Paul Rubens The Destiny of Marie de Medici Painting ID:: 97871 new26/Peter Paul Rubens-457853.jpg
The Destiny of Marie de Medici Oil on canvas. Louvre, Paris, France.
Date 1621-1625
cyf
Peter Paul Rubens The Lamentation Painting ID:: 97961 new26/Peter Paul Rubens-993574.jpg
The Lamentation 1614(1614)
Medium oil on panel
cyf
Peter Paul Rubens The Holy Family with St Elizabeth Painting ID:: 98314 new26/Peter Paul Rubens-777636.jpg
The Holy Family with St Elizabeth between 1614(1614) and 1615(1615)
Medium oil on panel
cyf
Peter Paul Rubens The Marriage of Henri IV of France and Marie de Medicis Painting ID:: 98444 new26/Peter Paul Rubens-899968.jpg
The Marriage of Henri IV of France and Marie de Medicis between 1628(1628) and 1630(1630)
Medium oil on panel
Dimensions Height: 23 cm (9.1 in). Width: 12.5 cm (4.9 in).
Peter Paul Rubens Charles Bonaventura de Longueval, Count de Bucquoi Painting ID:: 98448 new26/Peter Paul Rubens-544325.jpg
Charles Bonaventura de Longueval, Count de Bucquoi 1621(1621)
Medium oil on panel
Dimensions 62 x 50 cm
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.