Peter Paul Rubens was born into the family of a Calvinist who had to live in exile from Antwerp. On his father's death, Ruben’s mother returned to Antwerp in 1587, where he was brought up and educated in the Catholic faith. At the age of fourteen (1591) he entered the household of a Flemish princess as a page, and began to study painting first under Tobias Verhaecht, then under Adam van Noort, and then under Otho Venius. In 1598, he was accepted as master in the Lukas Guild, though continued to work in Venius’s workshop until 1600.
1603. Oil on canvas. Museo del Prado, Madrid, Spain. Read Note.
1603. Oil on canvas. Museo del Prado, Madrid, Spain. Read Note.
1606-1607. Oil on canvas. Museo del Prado, Madrid, Spain. Read Note.
1606. Oil on canvas. Gemaldegalerie, Berlin, Germany.
c.1606. Oil on canvas. The National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, USA. Read Note.
c.1608. Oil on canvas. Art Museum, Bucharest, Romania.
1608-1609. Oil on panel. Schloss Sanssouci, Potsdam, Germany. Read Note.
c.1609. Oil on canvas. Alte Pinakothek, Munich, Germany.
c.1609-1611. Oil on panel. Gemaldegalerie, Berlin, Germany. Read Note.
c.1609-1610. Oil on panel. Thyssen-Bornemisza Collection, Lugano-Castagnola, Switzerland.
1610-1611. Oil on panel. Cathedral, Antwerp, Belgium. Read Note.
c.1611. Oil on wood. Alte Meister Gallerie, Dresden, Germany. Read Note.
1611-1612. Oil on canvas. Palazzo Pitti, Galleria Palatina, Florence, Italy. Read Note.
1611-1614. Oil on panel. Cathedral, Antwerp, Belgium. Read Note.
1611-1614. Oil on panel. Cathedral, Antwerp, Belgium.
1611-1612. Oil on canvas. Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA, USA. Read Note.
c.1612. Oil on canvas. J. Paul Getty Museum, Malibu, USA. Read Note.
c.1612-1614. Oil on canvas. Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna, Austria.
c. 1614. Oil on wood. The National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, USA. Read Note.
c.1614. Oil on canvas. Schloss Sanssouci, Potsdam, Germany. Read Note.
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