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Sir Peter Paul Rubens (/ ˈ r uː b ən z / ROO-bənz; [1] Dutch: [ˈpeːtər pʌul ˈrybəns]; 28 June 1577 – 30 May 1640) was a Flemish artist and diplomat. [2] He is considered the most influential artist of the Flemish Baroque tradition. Rubens' highly charged compositions reference erudite aspects of classical and Christian history.
The Honeysuckle Bower is a self-portrait of the Flemish Baroque painter Peter Paul Rubens and his first wife Isabella Brant, executed c. 1609.The couple is seated in fine clothes within a garden composition and a vine of honeysuckle is placed overhead. The symbolism of the double-portrait alludes to meanings of love and marriage, such as the ...
Het Steen (lit. ' The Stone ' or 'The Rock'), also known as the Rubens Castle (Rubenskasteel), is a castle in Elewijt, Flemish Brabant in Belgium.It was owned by the artist Peter Paul Rubens between 1635 and his death in 1640 and the castle features in some of his landscape paintings.
The artist Peter Paul Rubens painted in Belgium between 1609 and 1621, working for many royal patrons from his studio in Antwerp. Rubens' house in Antwerp, the Rubenshuis , is now a museum. Anthony van Dyck , celebrated for his painting of British court, including Charles I , was born in Antwerp.
Self-portrait in a circle of friends in Mantua, also referred to as Self-Portrait in the Circle of Mantuan Friends or, for short, as Mantuan Friendship Picture [1] is an oil painting on canvas by the Flemish artist Peter Paul Rubens, produced between 1602 and 1606 when the artist worked in Mantua as a court painter of the Gonzagas.
This is an incomplete list of Flemish painters, with place and date of birth and death, sorted by patronymic, and grouped according to century of birth. It includes painters such as Rubens from (or mostly active in) the Southern Netherlands , which is approximately the area of modern Flanders and modern Wallonia.
Jan Boeckhorst or Johann Bockhorst [1] (Münster, c. 1604 – Antwerp, 21 April 1668) was a German-born Flemish Baroque painter and draughtsman who worked most of his career in Antwerp. He was a versatile artist who produced history paintings , genre scenes and portraits in a style influenced by the trio of leading Antwerp painters Peter Paul ...
The 17th century was a period dominated by the distinct individuals Peter Paul Rubens in the Southern Netherlands and Rembrandt van Rijn in the newly independent Dutch Republic. [3] Dutch and Flemish painters both followed many of the same themes, including still life, genre, landscape, portraiture and classicism.