Great Artists - Rubens

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Great Artists - Rubens

Sir Peter Paul Rubens
(June 28, 1577 - 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.

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The Elevation of the Cross


Descent from the Cross


The Garden of Love


Massacre of the Innocents


Samson and Delilah


The Judgment of Paris


The Fall of the Damned


The Fall of Phaeton


The Feast of Venus


Ecce Homo


Adam and Eve


The Three Graces


Tiger Hunt

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The Château Het Steen with Hunter


Miracle of Saint Hubert, painted together with Jan Bruegel


Landscape with the Ruins of Mount Palatine in Rome


Landscape with Milkmaids and Cattle

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The Wedding of Peleus and Thetis


The Birth of the Milky Way


Venus and Adonis


Jupiter and Callisto

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Venus at a Mirror


Virgin in Adoration before the Christ Child


Diana Returning from Hunt


Hippopotamus Hunt


The Rape of the Daughters of Leucippus