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Wikipedia: Sir Peter Paul Rubens (June 28, 1577 – May 30, 1640) was a prolific seventeenth-century Flemish Baroque painter, and a proponent of an extravagant 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.
![[The Château de Steen with Hunter, ca. 1635–8 (National Gallery, London)]](http://images.ookaboo.com/photo/s/Peter_Paul_Rubens_060_s.jpg "The Château de Steen with Hunter, ca. 1635–8 (National Gallery, London)")
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![[Rubens is known for the frenetic energy and lusty ebullience of his paintings, as typified by the Hippopotamus Hunt]](http://images.ookaboo.com/photo/s/Peter_Paul_Rubens_083_s.jpg "Rubens is known for the frenetic energy and lusty ebullience of his paintings, as typified by the Hippopotamus Hunt")
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![[The Massacre of the Innocents, c. 1611. Art Gallery of Ontario.]](http://images.ookaboo.com/photo/s/Peter_Paul_Rubens_Massacre_of_the_Innocents_s.jpg "The Massacre of the Innocents, c. 1611. Art Gallery of Ontario.")
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![[Venus at the Mirror]](http://images.ookaboo.com/photo/s/Peter_Paul_Rubens_111_s.jpg "Venus at the Mirror")
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![[Portrait of Hélène Fourment , c]](http://images.ookaboo.com/photo/s/Peter_Paul_Rubens_019_s.jpg "Portrait of Hélène Fourment , c")
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![[The Fall of Man 1628–29. Prado, Madrid.]](http://images.ookaboo.com/photo/s/Peter_Paul_Rubens_004_s.jpg "The Fall of Man 1628–29. Prado, Madrid.")
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![[The Elevation of the Cross, 1610–11]](http://images.ookaboo.com/photo/s/Peter_Paul_Rubens_068_s.jpg "The Elevation of the Cross, 1610–11")
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![[The Exchange of Princesses, from the Marie de' Medici Cycle. Louvre, Paris.]](http://images.ookaboo.com/photo/s/Peter_Paul_Rubens_037_s.jpg "The Exchange of Princesses, from the Marie de' Medici Cycle. Louvre, Paris.")
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![[Portrait of Władysław IV by Peter Paul Rubens, 1624]](http://images.ookaboo.com/photo/s/LadislasIV_s.jpg "Portrait of Władysław IV by Peter Paul Rubens, 1624")
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![[The Virgin and Child Adored by Angels'', 1608, oil on slate and copper]](http://images.ookaboo.com/photo/s/Rubens_vallicella_s.jpg "The Virgin and Child Adored by Angels'', 1608, oil on slate and copper")
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