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Workshop of Peter Paul Rubens

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Flandes
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1577-1640

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Artwork by Workshop of Peter Paul Rubens
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Joan of Arc

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Rubens was a Flemish artist and diplomat. He is considered one of the most influential artists of the Flemish baroque tradition. His style emphasized movement, color, and sensuality. He produced altarpieces, portraits, landscapes, and history paintings. Rubens also designed cartoons for Flemish tapestry workshops and publishers in Antwerp, Belgium.

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Sir Peter Paul Rubens ( ROO-bənz; Dutch: [ˈpeːtər pʌul ˈrybəns]; 28 June 1577 – 30 May 1640) was a Flemish artist and diplomat. He is considered the most influential artist of the Flemish Baroque tradition. Rubens's highly charged compositions reference erudite aspects of classical and Christian history. His unique and immensely popular Baroque style emphasised movement, colour, and sensuality, which followed the immediate, dramatic artistic style promoted in the Counter-Reformation. Rubens was a painter producing altarpieces, portraits, landscapes, and history paintings of mythological and allegorical subjects. He was also a prolific designer of cartoons for the Flemish tapestry workshops and of frontispieces for the publishers in Antwerp. Rubens was born and raised in the Holy Roman Empire (modern-day Germany) to parents who were refugees from Antwerp in the Duchy of Brabant in the Spanish Netherlands and moved to Antwerp at about 12. In addition to running a large workshop in…