Peter Paul Rubens

1577–1640 · Baroque

Sir Peter Paul Rubens 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.

40 paintings

• The Holy Family with Saints Elizabeth and John the Baptist (c. 1615)
• Meleager and Atalante (1635)
• Portrait of Isabella Brant (c. 1620–25)
• Diana and Her Nymphs Departing for the Hunt (c. 1615)
• Study for "The Bear Hunt" (for the Alcázar, Madrid) (c. 1639)
• The Triumph of the Church (after 1628)
• Perseus Freeing Andromeda (1638)
• The Virgin as the Woman of the Apocalypse (1624)
• The Entombment (1612)
• Crown of Thorns (1612)
• The Feast of Venus (1636)
• Miracles of St. Francis Xavier (1617)
• Girl with a Fan (1612)
• The miracles of St. Francis Xavier, Modello (1616)
• Christ's first appearance to the apostles in Jerusalem (1614)
• The Coronation of Marie de' Medici in Saint-Denis (1622)
• Portrait of Helena Fourment with Two of Her Children (1636)
• Adoration of the Magi (1624)
• Portrait of Michiel Ophovius (1570-1637), bishop of 's-Hertogenbosch (1616)
• The Triumph of Rome: The Youthful Emperor Constantine Honouring Rome (1622)
• Sketch for the Assumption of the Virgin (1620)
• Old woman and boy with candles (1616)
• A Roman Triumph (1630)
• The Judgment of Paris (1633)
• The Judgment of Paris (1598)
• The Brazen Serpent (1638)
• A View of Het Steen in the Early Morning (1636)
• Head of One of the Three Kings: Melchior, The Assyrian King (c. 1618)
• Decius Mus Addressing the Legions (probably 1616)
• The Meeting of Abraham and Melchizedek (c. 1626)
• Agrippina and Germanicus (c. 1614)
• Daniel in the Lions' Den (c. 1614/1616)
• The Fall of Phaeton (c. 1604/1605, probably reworked c. 1606/1608)
• The Meeting of David and Abigail (c. 1630)
• The Three Graces (1630)
• Cadmus sowing dragon's teeth (1650)
• Salomons dom (1615-1618)
• Kristus på korset (1592-1633)
• Matthæus Yrsselius (1541-1629), abbed ved Sint-Michiels kloster i Antwerpen (1622-1625)
• Johanna af Østrig (1547-1578) (1620-1623)