RUBENS, Peter Paul

1577 Siegen (West Phalia) – 1640 Antwerp. Baroque

His father was a Calvinist and so he had to live in exile from Antwerp, so Ruben’s grew up in Cologne. In 1610 he built himself a large house and studio. During his Antwerp period, until 1622, he received a flood of commissions from the church, state and nobility, employing in his large workshop many pupils who later became famous to help with the work.
His largest commission was for a series of 21 paintings of the life of the Queen Dowager Marie de Medici for the Palais Luxembourg in Paris, for which he received a fee of 20.000 ducats. The most important painter of the International Baroque thus became the first artistic aristocrat, whose fame and wealth constantly increased. Rubens, the great Baroque master, successfully brought together in his style northern and Flemish elements of this period with those of Italy. His influence on the painters of his century was enormous, as it was on sculpture and architecture. His sometimes gigantic ‘pictorial inventions’, which do not always appeal to today’s taste, were pioneering in composition, design and the art of colour, taking as subject all major themes of painting: Biblical scenes and lives of the saints, mythology and subjects of Antiquity, and also peasant scenes, landscapes and portraiture. My talent is such, he wrote, " that no undertaking, however large and varied in theme, has ever gone beyond my self-confidence "

The Virgin and Child Adored by Angels	The Three Graces	The Straw Hat
1608	1639	1625

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