Peter Paul Rubens
Peter Paul Rubens - 1577-1640
Peter Rubens was born in 1577 in Siegen, Nassau-Dillenburg, which is modern-day North Rhine-Westphalia, in Germany. Herr Rubens is most known for his Baroque style of painting, popular in the seventeenth century. During his teenage years he apprenticed with a number of famous or semi-famous painters from that era, including Otto van Veen and Tobias Verhaeghe. On his travels through Italy in 1600 Herr Rubens gained financial backing from Duke...