Rubens

Peter Paul Rubens
Tarquin and Lucretia
1609
oil on canvas
(looted from Sanssouci Palace in 1945 by Russian troops)
Hermitage, Saint Petersburg

Peter Paul Rubens
Meeting of Abraham and Melchizedek
ca. 1625
oil on panel, transferred to canvas
Musée des Beaux-Arts de Caen

Peter Paul Rubens
Portrait of Giovanna Spinola Pavese
1606
oil on canvas
(painted in Genoa)
Romanian National Museum of Art, Bucharest

Peter Paul Rubens
Study of Thomas Howard, Earl of Arundel
(leading British connoisseur of his generation)
ca. 1629-30
drawing
Ashmolean Museum, Oxford

Peter Paul Rubens
Study of Thomas Howard, Earl of Arundel
(leading British connoisseur of his generation)
ca. 1629-30
drawing
Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Massachusetts

Peter Paul Rubens
Portrait of a Lady with a Fan
ca. 1628-30
oil on canvas
(copy of now-lost original by Titian)
Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna

Peter Paul Rubens
Half-Length Figure Study
1610
drawing
Ashmolean Museum, Oxford

Peter Paul Rubens
Portrait of Ambrogio Spinola
ca. 1627
oil on panel
Národní Galerie, Prague

Peter Paul Rubens
Christ forgiving Repentant Sinners
ca. 1616-17
oil on panel
Alte Pinakothek, Munich

Peter Paul Rubens
Miracles of St Francis Xavier
ca. 1617-18
oil on canvas
(altarpiece)
Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna

Peter Paul Rubens
Portrait of Jan Gaspard Gevartius
1628
oil on panel
Royal Museum of Fine Arts, Antwerp

Peter Paul Rubens
Martyrdom of St George
ca. 1615
oil on panel
Musée des Beaux-Arts de Bordeaux

Peter Paul Rubens
Christ's Charge to Peter
ca. 1614
oil on canvas
Gemäldegalerie, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin

Peter Paul Rubens
St Jerome
ca. 1610
oil on panel
Bildgalerie von Sanssouci, Potsdam

Peter Paul Rubens
Young Man carrying a Ladder
ca. 1619-20
drawing
Graphische Sammlung Albertina, Vienna

Peter Paul Rubens
Virgin and Child
ca. 1615-20
oil on panel
Landesmuseum, Hannover

Peter Paul Rubens (1577-1640) – Italianate Flemish painter, perhaps the greatest exponent of the Baroque style which he pioneered; and the only northern European artist successfully to rival the Italians in history painting.  He was also an unmatched designer of altarpieces and large-scale mural and ceiling decorations, working, however, in oils and not fresco.  His portraits on the scale of life influenced, among others, his one-time assistant Van Dyck, and his landscapes revolutionized the genre.  His work, based on first-hand study of the antique, the Italian Renaissance and his own native tradition, affected not only countless contemporaries but also successive generations of artists even into the 20th century.  The tag of 'learned painter,' while more accurate than for almost any other artist, does not do justice to the intensely visual quality of his art, uniquely affirmative of the joys of life, albeit tempered with a philosophic moderation and reticence not immediately perceptible to a modern viewer. 

– Erika Langmuir and Norbert Lynton, Yale Dictionary of Art and Artists (2000)