Peter Paul Rubens Interior of the Banquetiong House (mk01) Painting ID:: 20243 new5/Peter Paul Rubens-569647.jpg
Interior of the Banquetiong House (mk01) Whitehall,
London
Peter Paul Rubens The Banquetion House (mk01) Painting ID:: 20244 new5/Peter Paul Rubens-759584.jpg
The Banquetion House (mk01) Ceiling,
1632-4
Whitehall,
London
Peter Paul Rubens Minerva Conquering Ignorance (mk01) Painting ID:: 20245 new5/Peter Paul Rubens-772347.jpg
Minerva Conquering Ignorance (mk01) 1632-4
Oil on canvas;
Banqueting House,
Whitehall,
London
Peter Paul Rubens The Union of the Crowns (mk01) Painting ID:: 20247 new5/Peter Paul Rubens-567862.jpg
The Union of the Crowns (mk01) 1632-4
Oil on canvas;
Banqueting House,
Whitehall,
London
Peter Paul Rubens The Peaceful Reign of King Fames i (mk01) Painting ID:: 20250 new5/Peter Paul Rubens-972795.jpg
The Peaceful Reign of King Fames i (mk01) 1632-4
Oil on canvas;
Banqueting
House,Whitehall,
London
Peter Paul Rubens Peace and Plenty Embracing (mk01) Painting ID:: 20257 new5/Peter Paul Rubens-857837.jpg
Peace and Plenty Embracing (mk01) c.1632-3
Oil sketch for The Peaceful Reign of King
Fames i
Oil on panel;
62.9x47cm
24 3/4x18 1/2in
Yale Center for British Art,
New Haven
Peter Paul Rubens Cardinal-Infante Ferdinand (mk01) Painting ID:: 20259 new5/Peter Paul Rubens-769765.jpg
Cardinal-Infante Ferdinand (mk01) C.1636
Oil on canvas;
116x94cm
45 5/8x37in
John and Mable
Ringling Museum of Art,
Sarasota,
Florida
Peter Paul Rubens Fan Caspar Gevaerts (mk01) Painting ID:: 20262 new5/Peter Paul Rubens-334395.jpg
Fan Caspar Gevaerts (mk01) c.1627.
Oil on panel;
120x99cm
47 1/4x39in
Koninklijk
Museum voor
Schone Kunsten,Antwerp
Peter Paul Rubens The Temple of Fanus (mk01) Painting ID:: 20264 new5/Peter Paul Rubens-753775.jpg
The Temple of Fanus (mk01) 1634
Oil sketch for
The Entry of Ferdinand.
Oil on panel;
70x68.8cm
27 1/2x27in
Hermitage,
St Petersbury
Peter Paul Rubens The Worship of Venus (mk01) Painting ID:: 20265 new5/Peter Paul Rubens-629557.jpg
The Worship of Venus (mk01) 15183-20
Oil on canvas;
172x175cm
67 3/4x68 7/8in
Museo del Prado,
Madrid
Peter Paul Rubens The Worship of Venus (mk01) Painting ID:: 20266 new5/Peter Paul Rubens-469636.jpg
The Worship of Venus (mk01) c.1635
Copy after Titian,
Oil on canvas;
195x209cm
76 3/4x82 1/4in
National-museum,
Stockholm
Peter Paul Rubens Venus and Adonis (mk01) Painting ID:: 20270 new5/Peter Paul Rubens-264775.jpg
Venus and Adonis (mk01) 1553-4
Oil on canvas;
186x207cm
73 1/4x81 1/2in
Museo del Prado,Madrid
Peter Paul Rubens Venus and Adonis (mk01) Painting ID:: 20271 new5/Peter Paul Rubens-486385.jpg
Venus and Adonis (mk01) c.1635
Oil on canvas;
197.4x242.8cm
77 3/4x95 5/8in
Metropolitan
Museum of Art
New York
Peter Paul Rubens Diana and Callisto (mk01) Painting ID:: 20272 new5/Peter Paul Rubens-755333.jpg
Diana and Callisto (mk01) C.1619
Oil on canvas
202x323cm
79 1/2x127 1/8in
Museo del Prado,
Madrid
Peter Paul Rubens The Allegory of Peace (mk01) Painting ID:: 20273 new5/Peter Paul Rubens-636985.jpg
The Allegory of Peace (mk01) 1629-30
Oil on canvas;
198x297cm
78x116 7/8in
National Gallery,
London
Peter Paul Rubens Venus,Mars and Cupid (mk01) Painting ID:: 20274 new5/Peter Paul Rubens-235756.jpg
Venus,Mars and Cupid (mk01) C.1630
Oil on canvas;
195.2x133cm
76 3/4x52 3/8in
Dulwich Picture Gallery,
London.
Peter Paul Rubens The Horrors of War (mk01) Painting ID:: 20276 new5/Peter Paul Rubens-753964.jpg
The Horrors of War (mk01) 1637-8
Oil on canvas;
206x342cm
81 3/8x134 5/8in
Galleria Pitti,
Florence
Peter Paul Rubens Hercules and Minerva Fighting Mars (mk01) Painting ID:: 20278 new5/Peter Paul Rubens-994738.jpg
Hercules and Minerva Fighting Mars (mk01) c.1634-7
Gouache over black chalk;
37x53.9cm
14 5/8x21 1/4in
Musee du Louvre,Paris
Peter Paul Rubens The Coronation of St Catherine (mk01) Painting ID:: 20281 new5/Peter Paul Rubens-589464.jpg
The Coronation of St Catherine (mk01) 1631
Oil on canvas;
265.8x214.3cm
104 5/8x84 /8in
Toledo Museum of Art,
Ohio
Peter Paul Rubens The Crucifixion of St Peter (mk01) Painting ID:: 20282 new5/Peter Paul Rubens-485443.jpg
The Crucifixion of St Peter (mk01) C.1638-40
Oil on canvas;
328x220cm
129 3/8
Peter Paul Rubens Landscape with the Tower of Steen (mk01) Painting ID:: 20285 new5/Peter Paul Rubens-744992.jpg
Landscape with the Tower of Steen (mk01) c.1632-7
Oil on panel;
24x30cm
9 1/2x11 3/4in
Gemalde-galerie,Berlin
Peter Paul Rubens The Chateau de Steen (mk01) Painting ID:: 20286 new5/Peter Paul Rubens-355468.jpg
The Chateau de Steen (mk01) C.1635-8
Oil on panel;
131.5x229.5cm
51 3/4x90 38/in
National Gallery,
London
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.