Peter Paul Rubens Artist
Sir Peter Paul Rubens (/ˈruːbənz/; Dutch: [ˈrybəns]; 28 June 1577 – 30 May 1640), was a Flemish Baroque painter. A proponent of an extravagant Baroque style that emphasized movement, colour, and sensuality, Rubens 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 that produced paintings popular with nobility and art collectors throughout Europe, Rubens was a classically educated humanist scholar and diplomat who was knighted by both Philip IV, King of Spain, and Charles I, King of England.
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- http://books.google.com/books?id=AS_NXFoY0M4C&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q&f=false
- http://books.google.com/books?id=kuWm7jVWFiEC&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q&f=false
- http://libmma.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/compoundobject/collection/p15324coll10/id/90445
- http://nan-a-talese.knopfdoubleday.com/2009/10/20/on-sale-now-master-of-shadows
- http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703298004574459753201012282.html
- http://shop.getty.edu/products/looking-east-rubenss-encounter-with-asia-978-1606061312
- http://www.guardian.co.uk/arts/features/story/0,11710,903646,00.html
- http://www.lalaragimov.com/research
- http://www.peterpaulrubens.org
- http://www.rubenshuis.be/eCache/MCE/30/05/169.html