Olga's Gallery
Peter Paul Rubens
(1577-1640)
Biography
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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. Read Peter Paul Rubens's Full Biography
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The Equestrian Portrait of the Duke of Lerma. 1603. Oil on canvas. Museo del Prado, Madrid, Spain. Read Note. 
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Democritus. 1603. Oil on canvas. Museo del Prado, Madrid, Spain. Read Note.
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St. George and the Dragon. 1606-1607. Oil on canvas. Museo del Prado, Madrid, Spain. Read Note.
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St. Gregory, St. Maurus, St. Papianus and St. Domitilla. 1606. Oil on canvas. Gemaldegalerie, Berlin, Germany.
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Portrait of Marchesa Brigida Spinola Doria. c.1606. Oil on canvas. The National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, USA. Read Note.
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Portrait of a Woman. c.1608. Oil on canvas. Art Museum, Bucharest, Romania.
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St. Jerome in His Hermitage. 1608-1609. Oil on panel. Schloss Sanssouci, Potsdam, Germany. Read Note.
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Rubens and Isabella Brant
in the Bower of Honeysuckle. c.1609. Oil on canvas. Alte Pinakothek,
Munich, Germany.
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The Lamentation. c.1609-1611. Oil on panel. Gemaldegalerie, Berlin, Germany. Read Note.
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Portrait of a Lady with
a Rosary. c.1609-1610. Oil on panel. Thyssen-Bornemisza Collection,
Lugano-Castagnola, Switzerland.
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The Elevation of the Cross (central part of the triptych). 1610-1611. Oil on panel. Cathedral, Antwerp, Belgium. Read Note.
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Hercules Drunk, Being Led Away By a Nymph and a Satyr. c.1611. Oil on wood. Alte Meister Gallerie, Dresden, Germany. Read Note.
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The Four Philosophers. 1611-1612. Oil on canvas. Palazzo Pitti, Galleria Palatina, Florence, Italy. Read Note.
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The Descent from the Cross (central part of the triptych). 1611-1614. Oil on panel. Cathedral, Antwerp, Belgium. Read Note.
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The Descent from the Cross. 1611-1614. Oil on panel. Cathedral, Antwerp, Belgium.
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Chained Prometheus. 1611-1612. Oil on canvas. Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA, USA. Read Note.
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The Entombment. Detail. c.1612. Oil on canvas. J. Paul Getty Museum, Malibu, USA. Read Note.
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The Four Parts of the
World. c.1612-1614. Oil on canvas. Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna,
Austria.
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Tiberius and Agrippina. c. 1614. Oil on wood. The National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, USA. Read Note.
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The Four Evangelists. c.1614. Oil on canvas. Schloss Sanssouci, Potsdam, Germany. Read Note.
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Lioness. 1614-1615.
British Museum, London, UK.
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Daniel in the Lions' Den. 1615. Oil on canvas. The National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, USA. Read Note.
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St. Jerome. 1615. Oil on canvas. Alte Meister Gallerie, Dresden, Germany. Read Note.
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The Death of Seneca. c. 1615. Oil on canvas. Museo del Prado, Madrid, Spain. Read Note.
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Holy Family with St. Elizabeth ("Madonna of the Basket"). c.1615. Oil on canvas. Palazzo Pitti, Galleria Palatina, Florence, Italy. Read Note.
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Venus at a Mirror. c.1615. . Sammlung Fürst von Liechtenstein, Vaduz, Liechtenstein. Read Note.
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The Statue of Ceres. c.1615. Oil on panel. The Hermitage, St. Petersburg, Russia. Read Note.
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Bacchanalia. c.1615. Oil on canvas. The Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow, Russia. Read Note.
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The Champion of Virtue
(Mars), Crowned by the Goddess of Victory. 1615-1616. Oil on canvas.
Alte Meister Gallerie, Dresden, Germany.
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Hippopotamus and Crocodile
Hunt. c.1615-1616. Oil on canvas. Alte Pinakothek, Munich, Germany.
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An Old Woman with a Chafing-Dish. 1616-1618. Oil on wood. Alte Meister Gallerie, Dresden, Germany.
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Diana Returning from the Chase. 1616-1617. Oil on canvas. Alte Meister Gallerie, Dresden, Germany. Read Note.
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Christ Risen. 1616. Oil on canvas. Palazzo Pitti, Galleria Palatina, Florence, Italy. Read Note.
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Madonna in a Garland of Flowers. c.1616-1618. (The garland was painted by Jan Bruegel the Elder) Oil on wood. Alte Pinakothek, Munich, Germany.
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Decius Mus Addressing the Legions. 1617. Oil on wood. The National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, USA. Read Note.
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