Peter Paul Rubens The Arch of Ferdinand (mk27) Painting ID:: 24374 new8/Peter Paul Rubens-326968.jpg
The Arch of Ferdinand (mk27) 1634
Oil on canvas (Transferred from Panel) 41 x 28 1/2''(104 x 72.5 cm)
The Hermitage Leningrad
Peter Paul Rubens The Fall of Phaethon (mk27) Painting ID:: 24377 new8/Peter Paul Rubens-947322.jpg
The Fall of Phaethon (mk27) 1636
Oil on panel 11 1/16 x 10 13/16''(28.1 x 27.5 cm)
Musees royaux des beaux-arts,Brussels Bequest of Comtesse de Valencia de Don Juan,Paris,1919
Peter Paul Rubens Arachne Punished by Minerva (mk27) Painting ID:: 24378 new8/Peter Paul Rubens-496958.jpg
Arachne Punished by Minerva (mk27) 1636
Oil on panel 10 1/2 x 15''(26.7 x 38.1 cm)
Virginia Museum of Fine Arts,Richmond The Williams Fund,1958
Peter Paul Rubens The Judgment of Paris (mk27) Painting ID:: 24379 new8/Peter Paul Rubens-937272.jpg
The Judgment of Paris (mk27) c 1635-1638
Oil on panel 57 x 76 1/4''(144.8 x 193.7 cm)
The National Gallery,London
Peter Paul Rubens The Horrors of War (mk27) Painting ID:: 24381 new8/Peter Paul Rubens-899359.jpg
The Horrors of War (mk27) 1637
Oil on canvas 6'9'' x 11'4''(206 x 345 cm)
Palazzo Pitti,Florence
Peter Paul Rubens Landscape by Moonlight (mk43) Painting ID:: 25705 new8/Peter Paul Rubens-838873.jpg
Landscape by Moonlight (mk43) 1637-1640
The Courtauld Institute Gallery,
Somerset House,London
Peter Paul Rubens Self-Portrait with his Wife,Isabella Brant Painting ID:: 26776 new2/Peter Paul Rubens-763528.jpg
Self-Portrait with his Wife,Isabella Brant mk52
c.1609
Oil on canvas
178x136.5cm
Alte Pinakothek,Munich
Peter Paul Rubens Portrait of the Artist Painting ID:: 26777 new2/Peter Paul Rubens-799977.jpg
Portrait of the Artist mk52
1623-4
Oil on wod
86x62.5cm
Peter Paul Rubens The Abduction fo Ganymede Painting ID:: 28081 new3/Peter Paul Rubens-363972.jpg
The Abduction fo Ganymede mk61
Oil on canvas
181x87cm
Peter Paul Rubens Landscape with a Rainbow Painting ID:: 28340 new3/Peter Paul Rubens-483689.jpg
Landscape with a Rainbow mk60
Oil on canvas
transferred from panel
34x51"
Peter Paul Rubens The Stone Carters Painting ID:: 28454 new3/Peter Paul Rubens-837497.jpg
The Stone Carters mk60
ca.1620
Oil on canvas
tranferred from panel
34x50"
Peter Paul Rubens The Garden of Love Painting ID:: 28512 new3/Peter Paul Rubens-978363.jpg
The Garden of Love mk61
c.1630
Detail
Peter Paul Rubens Helene Fourment and her Eldest Son Frans Painting ID:: 28618 new3/Peter Paul Rubens-954343.jpg
Helene Fourment and her Eldest Son Frans c 1635
Oil on wood 146 x 102 cm
Munich Alte Pinakothek Bayrische Staats-Gemaldesammlungen (mk64)
Peter Paul Rubens The Death of Seneca Painting ID:: 28712 new3/Peter Paul Rubens-377583.jpg
The Death of Seneca mk61
c.1615
Oil on panel
184x155cm
Peter Paul Rubens The Adoration of the Magi 1608 and 1628-1629 Painting ID:: 28713 new3/Peter Paul Rubens-676268.jpg
The Adoration of the Magi 1608 and 1628-1629 mk61
Oil on canvas
346x438cm
Peter Paul Rubens A Peasant Dance Painting ID:: 28714 new3/Peter Paul Rubens-985398.jpg
A Peasant Dance mk61
Oil on panel
73x106cm
Peter Paul Rubens The Three Graces Painting ID:: 28715 new3/Peter Paul Rubens-577594.jpg
The Three Graces mk61
c.1636-1638
Oil on canvas
221x181cm
Peter Paul Rubens Return of the Peasants from the Fields Painting ID:: 28841 new3/Peter Paul Rubens-542635.jpg
Return of the Peasants from the Fields mk65
Oil on panel
47 5/8x76 3/8in
Peter Paul Rubens Ulysses on the Island of the Phaeacians Painting ID:: 28877 new3/Peter Paul Rubens-438459.jpg
Ulysses on the Island of the Phaeacians mk65
Oil on panel
50 3/8x81 1/2in
Pitti,Palatine Gallery
Peter Paul Rubens The Triumphal Entrance of Henry IV into Paris Painting ID:: 28878 new3/Peter Paul Rubens-756724.jpg
The Triumphal Entrance of Henry IV into Paris mk65
Oil on canvas
149 5/8x272 4/16in
Uffizi,Gallery
Peter Paul Rubens The Three Graces Painting ID:: 28880 new3/Peter Paul Rubens-498465.jpg
The Three Graces mk65
Oil on canvas
18 11/16x13 3/4in
Pitti,Palatne Gallery
Peter Paul Rubens Holy Family with St.Elizabeth Painting ID:: 29022 new3/Peter Paul Rubens-784959.jpg
Holy Family with St.Elizabeth mk65
Oil on canvas
44 7/8x34 5/8in
Peter Paul Rubens The Temle of Janus Painting ID:: 29075 new3/Peter Paul Rubens-245995.jpg
The Temle of Janus mk65
ca.1635
Oil on panel
27 1/2x 26"
Peter Paul Rubens The Temle of Janus Painting ID:: 29076 new3/Peter Paul Rubens-299579.jpg
The Temle of Janus mk65
ca.1635
Oil on panel
27 1/2x 26"
Peter Paul Rubens Statue of Ceres Painting ID:: 29077 new3/Peter Paul Rubens-487629.jpg
Statue of Ceres mk65
ca.1615
Oil on panel
35 1/2x26"
Peter Paul Rubens A Roman Woman's Love for Her Father Painting ID:: 29085 new3/Peter Paul Rubens-366648.jpg
A Roman Woman's Love for Her Father mk65
ca.1612
Oil on canvas
transferred from panel
55x71"
Peter Paul Rubens The Stone Carters Painting ID:: 29237 new3/Peter Paul Rubens-264696.jpg
The Stone Carters mk65
ca.1620
Oil on canvas
tranferred from panel
34x50"
Peter Paul Rubens The Coronation of Marie de' Medici Painting ID:: 29255 new3/Peter Paul Rubens-693552.jpg
The Coronation of Marie de' Medici mk65
Oil on panel
19x25"
Peter Paul Rubens Maid of Honor to the Infanta Isabella, Painting ID:: 29312 new3/Peter Paul Rubens-223627.jpg
Maid of Honor to the Infanta Isabella, mk65
Oil on panel
25x19"
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.