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Peter Paul Rubens (June 28, 1577 – May 30, 1640) was a prolific seventeenth-century Flemish Baroque painter, an 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.

Trivia about rubens

  • "The Union of Earth & Water", seen here, was painted by this zaftig-loving Baroque artist
  • There's more of Venus to love in a 1615 painting by this Flemish master
  • Venus, Juno & Minerva are the full-bodied women in this Flemish master's 1638 "Judgment of Paris"
  • An adjective meaning "voluptuous" comes from the name of this old master
  • Is it any wonder that this Flemish artist, whose early 17th century work is seen here, painted hippopotami?
  • In the 1620s he painted 21 large pictures in the life of Marie de Medicis; why, they were positively him-esque
  • Otto Van Veen--here's his "Lamentation"--taught this greatest northern Baroque painter--here's his
  • What an Antwerp! He painted "Het Pelsken" around 1638; how him-esque!

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