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Rubens painted Romulus and Remus……………….Holland is loaded with famous painters……………..
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Faustulus (to the right of picture) discovers Romulus and Remus with the she-wolf and woodpecker. Their mother Rhea Silvia and the river-god Tiberinus witness the moment. Painting by Peter Paul Rubens, c. 1616 (Capitoline Museums).
Sometimes he is thought to have been Dutch, died there………but was born in what is now Germany………………..Holland is an outstanding soccer country…………….with a huge history of seafaring…………and art……………and tuliups, and beer………….
Peter Paul Rubens
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| PETER PAUL RUBENS | |
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Self-portrait, 1623, Royal Collection
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| BORN | Peter Paul Rubens 28 June 1577 Siegen, Nassau-Dillenburg (nowNorth Rhine-Westphalia, Germany) |
| DIED | 30 May 1640 (aged 62) Antwerp, Spanish Netherlands(now Belgium) |
| NATIONALITY | Flemish |
| EDUCATION | Tobias Verhaecht Adam van Noort Otto van Veen |
| KNOWN FOR | Painting, Printmaking |
| MOVEMENT | Flemish Baroque Baroque |
Sir Peter Paul Rubens (Dutch pronunciation: [ˈrybəns]; 28 June 1577 – 30 May 1640), was a Flemish Baroque painter. A proponent of an extravagantBaroque 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 educatedhumanist scholar and diplomat who was knighted by both Philip IV, King of Spain, and Charles I, King of England.
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Early life[edit]
Rubens was born in the German city of Siegen, Nassau-Dillenburg, to Jan Rubens and Maria Pypelincks. His father, a Calvinist, and mother fled Antwerp for Cologne in 1568, after increased religious turmoil and persecution of Protestants during the rule of the Spanish Netherlands by the Duke of Alba.
Jan Rubens became the legal advisor (and lover) of Anna of Saxony, the second wife of William I of Orange, and settled at her court in Siegen in 1570, fathering her daughter Christine who was born in 1571.[1]
Following Jan Rubens’ imprisonment for the affair, Peter Paul Rubens was born in 1577. The family returned to Cologne the next year. In 1589, two years after his father’s death, Rubens moved with his mother Maria Pypelincks to Antwerp, where he was raised as aCatholic.
Religion figured prominently in much of his work and Rubens later became one of the leading voices of the Catholic Counter-Reformation style of painting[2] (he had said “My passion comes from the heavens, not from earthly musings”).
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