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| BIOGRAPHY OF PETER PAUL RUBENS |
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Born in Siegen, Westphalia in 1577, Peter Paul Rubens was one of the most celebrated painters of seventeenth century Northern Europe. Famed for his Counter-Reformation altarpieces, portraits, landscapes, and history paintings of mythological and heavily allegorical subjects, his exuberant Baroque style, emphasizing movement, color, and sensuality, won him many admirers among the European elite. He also worked as a classically-educated humanist scholar, art collector, and even a diplomat, knighted by both Philip IV of Spain and Charles I of England. He spent most of his later years in Antwerp, where he ran an enormously successful studio, and where he died in 1640.
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