num_pages: 352
description: One of the most versatile and influential artists of northern Europe in the 7th century Peter Paul Rubens (1577-1640) had a remarkable ability to bring his paintings intensely and joyfully alive. He was a successful businessman who ran an efficient studio and was also a classical scholar an enthusiastic collector of art and antiquities and a respected diplomat on intimate terms with European royalty. Contemporaries admired his extraordinary artistic versatility. His paintings include portraits altarpieces allegories and landscapes; he also designed tapestries book illustrations silverware and his own home.
language: English
title: Rubens
publisher: Phaidon Press