Peter Paul Rubens The Triumph of the Church (mk05) Painting ID:: 20862 new6/Peter Paul Rubens-637764.jpg
The Triumph of the Church (mk05) Oil on panel
86x106cm
Peter Paul Rubens Venus at a Mirror (mk08) Painting ID:: 21656 new6/Peter Paul Rubens-926588.jpg
Venus at a Mirror (mk08) c.1615
Oil on panel.
124x98cm
Vaduz,Sammlung Furst von Liechtenstein
Peter Paul Rubens The Four Philosophers (mk08) Painting ID:: 21697 new6/Peter Paul Rubens-848326.jpg
The Four Philosophers (mk08) c.1611
Oil on panel
164x139cm
Florence,Palazzo Pitti,
Galleria Palatina
Peter Paul Rubens Stormy Landscape with Philemon und Baucis(mk08) Painting ID:: 21698 new6/Peter Paul Rubens-539888.jpg
Stormy Landscape with Philemon und Baucis(mk08) c.1620
Oil on canvas
147x209cm
Vienna,Kunsthistorisches Museum
Peter Paul Rubens Ruben with his first wife Isabeela Brant in the Honeysuckle Bower (mk08) Painting ID:: 21699 new6/Peter Paul Rubens-678434.jpg
Ruben with his first wife Isabeela Brant in the Honeysuckle Bower (mk08) c.1609/10
Oil on canvas-coverde Panel
178x136.5
Munich,Bayerische Staatsgemalde-sammlungen,Alte Pinakothek
Peter Paul Rubens The Landing of Marie de'Medici at Marseilles (mk080 Painting ID:: 21700 new6/Peter Paul Rubens-878738.jpg
The Landing of Marie de'Medici at Marseilles (mk080 c.1622-1625
Oil on canvas
394x295cm
Paris Musee National du Louvre
Peter Paul Rubens The Rape of the Daughter of Leucippus (mk08) Painting ID:: 21701 new6/Peter Paul Rubens-823254.jpg
The Rape of the Daughter of Leucippus (mk08) c.1618
Oil on canvas
224x210.5cm
Munich,Bayerisch Staats-gemaldesammlungen
Alte Pinakothek
Peter Paul Rubens Hippopotamus and Crocodile Hunt (mk080 Painting ID:: 21702 new6/Peter Paul Rubens-934822.jpg
Hippopotamus and Crocodile Hunt (mk080 c.1615/16
Oil on canvas,
248x321cm
Munich,Bayerische Staatsgemald-sammlungen,Alte Pinakothek
Peter Paul Rubens The Three Graces (mk08) Painting ID:: 21703 new6/Peter Paul Rubens-724838.jpg
The Three Graces (mk08) 1639
Oil on canvas.
221x181cm
Madrid,Museo del Prado
Peter Paul Rubens Odysseus and Nausicaa (mk08) Painting ID:: 21704 new6/Peter Paul Rubens-522345.jpg
Odysseus and Nausicaa (mk08) 1619
Oil on panel,
91.5x117.2cm
Munich,Bayerische Staatsgemalde-sammlungen,Alte Pinakothek
Peter Paul Rubens Philip II on Horseback (df01) Painting ID:: 22526 new7/Peter Paul Rubens-647977.jpg
Philip II on Horseback (df01) 1628
Madrid,Museo del Prado
Peter Paul Rubens Adam and Eve (df01) Painting ID:: 22529 new7/Peter Paul Rubens-245897.jpg
Adam and Eve (df01) Madrid,Museo del Prado
Peter Paul Rubens The Origin of the Millky Way (df01) Painting ID:: 22530 new7/Peter Paul Rubens-767293.jpg
The Origin of the Millky Way (df01) 1628
Madrid,Museo del Prado
Peter Paul Rubens The Judgement of Paris (nn03) Painting ID:: 23473 new8/Peter Paul Rubens-495652.jpg
The Judgement of Paris (nn03) 1632-5
Oil on panel 144.8 x 193.7 cm 57 x 76 1/4 in National Gallery London
Peter Paul Rubens The Apotheosis of James I (mk25) Painting ID:: 23976 new8/Peter Paul Rubens-335372.jpg
The Apotheosis of James I (mk25) flanked by Processions of Putti c 1634
Peter Paul Rubens Portrait of the Artist (mk25) Painting ID:: 23987 new8/Peter Paul Rubens-962666.jpg
Portrait of the Artist (mk25) 1622
Peter Paul Rubens Landscape with St George (mk25) Painting ID:: 24001 new8/Peter Paul Rubens-566838.jpg
Landscape with St George (mk25) 1629-30
Peter Paul Rubens The Farm at Laeken (mk25) Painting ID:: 24172 new8/Peter Paul Rubens-755533.jpg
The Farm at Laeken (mk25) c 1617
Peter Paul Rubens Winter (mk25) Painting ID:: 24174 new8/Peter Paul Rubens-635284.jpg
Winter (mk25) c 1620
Peter Paul Rubens Summer (mk25) Painting ID:: 24177 new8/Peter Paul Rubens-247322.jpg
Summer (mk25) c 1620
Peter Paul Rubens Portrait of A Young Man (mk27) Painting ID:: 24360 new8/Peter Paul Rubens-679296.jpg
Portrait of A Young Man (mk27) 1597
Oil on copper 8 1/2 x 5 3/4''(21.6 x 14.6 cm)
Metropolian Museum of Art,New York Jock and Belle Linsky Collection 1982
Peter Paul Rubens The Judgment of Paris (mk27) Painting ID:: 24361 new8/Peter Paul Rubens-297534.jpg
The Judgment of Paris (mk27) 1600-1601
Oil on panel 52 11/16 x 68 11/16''(133.9 x 174.5 cm)
The National Gallery London
Peter Paul Rubens Landscape With Carters (mk27) Painting ID:: 24363 new8/Peter Paul Rubens-684755.jpg
Landscape With Carters (mk27) c 1617 - 1618
Panel Transfered to camas 33 7/8 x 49 3/4''(86 x 126.5 cm)
Hermitage Leningrad
Peter Paul Rubens Lion Hunt (mk27) Painting ID:: 24364 new8/Peter Paul Rubens-247839.jpg
Lion Hunt (mk27) 1621
Oil on canvas 8' 2'' x 12'4 7/16''(249 x 377 cm)
Alle Pinakothek Munich
Peter Paul Rubens The Marriage of Constantine (mk27) Painting ID:: 24366 new8/Peter Paul Rubens-895653.jpg
The Marriage of Constantine (mk27) Designed 1622 (woven 1623-1625)
Tapestry 16'1'' x 17'11''(490 x 546 cm)
Philadelphia Museum of Art,Philadelphia Given by the Sanuel H Kress Foundation
Peter Paul Rubens Portrait of Susanna Fourment ('Le Chapeau de Paille') (mk27) Painting ID:: 24368 new8/Peter Paul Rubens-729338.jpg
Portrait of Susanna Fourment ('Le Chapeau de Paille') (mk27) c 1622-1625
Oil on panel 31 1/16 x 21 1/4'' (79 x 54 cm)
The National Gallery London
Peter Paul Rubens Henry Iv Receiving The Portrait of Maria de'Medici (mk27) Painting ID:: 24370 new8/Peter Paul Rubens-599465.jpg
Henry Iv Receiving The Portrait of Maria de'Medici (mk27) 1622-1625
Oil on canvas 12' 11 1/16'' x 9' 8 1/8''(394 x 295 cm)
The Louvre Paris
Peter Paul Rubens THe Adoration of The Magi (mk27) Painting ID:: 24371 new8/Peter Paul Rubens-479535.jpg
THe Adoration of The Magi (mk27) 1624
Oil on panel 14'8 1/8'' x 11'4 3/16''(448 x 346 cm)
Koninklijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten Antwerp
Peter Paul Rubens Albert and Nicolaas Rubens (mk27) Painting ID:: 24373 new8/Peter Paul Rubens-557497.jpg
Albert and Nicolaas Rubens (mk27) c 1625
Oil on panel 62 1/4 x 36 1/4'' (158 x 92 cm)
Collections of the Prince of Liechtenstein,Vaduz
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.