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Peter Paul Rubens

Also known as Peter Paul Ruebens, Pieter Paul Rubens, Pieter Paul Rubbens, Petri Paulo Rubbens, Pierre Rubens

Flemish painter (1577–1640)

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Peter Paul Rubens was a painter, graphic artist, and printmaker born in Siegen in 1577. He was a citizen of the Spanish Netherlands and is associated with the Flemish Baroque painting and Baroque movements. His occupations also included work as a diplomat. He studied under Tobias Verhaecht, Adam van Noort, and Otto van Veen. Rubens was employed by Albert VII, Archduke of Austria, Vincenzo Gonzaga, and Marie de' Medici.

He is known for notable works such as The Fall of the Damned, The Tiger Hunt, Rubens and Isabella Brant in the honeysuckle bower, and The Three Graces. His genres included history painting, religious painting, nude, and portrait painting. He was married to Isabella Brant and Helena Fourment. His parents were Maria Pypelinckx and Jan Rubens. He died in Antwerp and was buried at St. James' Church, Antwerp. Rubens taught students including Anthony van Dyck, Jan Boeckhorst, Abraham van Diepenbeeck, and Justus van Egmont.

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Wikidata facts

Instance of: human
Given name: Paul
Gender: male
Citizenship: Spanish Netherlands
Place of birth: Siegen
Place of death: Antwerp
Spouse: Helena Fourment
Father: Jan Rubens
Mother: Maria Pypelinckx
Sibling: Philip Rubens
Occupation: visual artist
Position held: court painter
Educated at: Old University of Leuven
Employer: Marie de' Medici
Languages spoken: Spanish
Religion: Catholicism
Student of: Otto van Veen
Genre: animal art
Movement: Baroque
Image: Sir Peter Paul Rubens - Portrait of the Artist - Google Art Project.jpg
Work location: Mantua
Residence: Antwerp

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Commons category: Peter Paul Rubens
date of birth: 1577-06-28
student: George Jamesone
place of burial: St. James' Church, Antwerp
Commons Creator page: Peter Paul Rubens
topic's main category: Category:Peter Paul Rubens
Commons gallery: Peter Paul Rubens
influenced by: Pieter Brueghel the Elder
date of death: 1640-05-30
cause of death: heart failure
owner of: Saint George and the Dragon
has works in the collection: Buckingham Palace
described at URL: barokinvlaanderen.vlaamsekunstcollectie.be/nl/kunstenaar/peter-paul-rubens
name in native language: Peter Paul Rubens
floruit: 1600-01-01
social classification: noble
P8168: Del Tongo
manner of death: natural causes

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Works in European collections

36 objects attributed to Peter Paul Rubens, held across European museums, libraries & archives · via Europeana

[Landscape with a Rainbow]

[The Judgement of Paris]

St. Simon

[Marcus Iunius Brutus; Marcus Junius Brutus]

[Portrait of the Painter Frans Francken the Elder; Frans Francken the Elder; Portret van Frans Francken I]

[Effigies Paracelsi Medici Celeberrimi; Paracelsus, Theophrastus]

[The Resurrection]

[Isabella d “Este; Isabella d” Este, marquise of Mantua]

[Drunk Bacchus'; Drunk[ of Bacchus]

Ecce Homo

S. Iacobus Maior

Figure group

[Wild boar hunting; wild boar hunting]

Five lions and a lioness

[The Visitation; The Visitation]

C. Caesar dict. Perspetuo

[La carreta] [Material gráfico]

[Paisaje con hombres empujando un carro] [Material gráfico]

SERENISSIMI PRINCIPIS FERDINANDI HISPANIARVM INFANTIS... TRVMPHALIS INTROITVS IN FLANDRIAE METROPOLIM GANDAVVM AVCTORE GVLIELMO BECANO S.I. [Material gráfico]

Serenissimi Principis Ferdinandi Hispaniarum Infantis... Triumphalis Introitus in Flandriae Metropolim Gandauum [Printed Text]

[El triunfo de la Fe] [Material gráfico]

Letters of a rule

Christ dead on the knees of Mary

Cross erection

[Santa Catalina] [Material gráfico]

[La marcha de Sileno] [Material gráfico]

[El Juicio de Salomón] [Material gráfico]

[La Sagrada Familia con Santa Ana] [Material gráfico]

[Muerte de Séneca] [Material gráfico]

[Seneca in the Bathroom] [Graphic Material]

[Cimon and But] [Graphic Material]

[Ixión engañado por Juno] [Material gráfico]

[La toilet de Venus] [Material gráfico]

[La caída de los ángeles rebeldes] [Material gráfico]

[El jardín del amor con mujer sentada] [Material gráfico]

[Santa Catalina] [Material gráfico]

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Encyclopedic overview

Sir Peter Paul Rubens (/ˈruːbənz/ ROO-bənz; Dutch: [ˈpeːtər pʌul ˈrybəns]; 28 June 1577 – 30 May 1640) was a Flemish artist and diplomat. He is considered the most influential artist of the Flemish Baroque tradition. Rubens's highly charged compositions reference erudite aspects of classical and Christian history. His unique and immensely popular Baroque style emphasised movement, colour, and sensuality, which followed the immediate, dramatic artistic style promoted in the Counter-Reformation. Rubens was a painter producing altarpieces, portraits, landscapes, and history paintings of mythological and allegorical subjects. He was also a prolific designer of cartoons for the Flemish tapestry workshops and of frontispieces for the publishers in Antwerp.

Rubens was born and raised in the Holy Roman Empire (modern-day Germany) to parents who were refugees from Antwerp in the Duchy of Brabant in the Spanish Netherlands and moved to Antwerp at about 12. In addition to running a large workshop in Antwerp that produced paintings popular with nobility and art collectors throughout Europe, Rubens was a classically educated humanist scholar and diplomat who was knighted by both Philip IV of Spain and Charles I of England. Rubens was a prolific artist. The catalogue of his works by Michael Jaffé lists 1,403 pieces, excluding numerous copies made in his workshop.

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