Average  He was admitted to the painter's guild in his native Antwerp in 1598 and two years later moved to Italy where he began working as a diplomat and painter for the Duke of Mantua.  
Average  He was admitted to the painter's guild in his native Antwerp in 1598 and two years later moved to Italy where he began working as a diplomat and painter for the Duke of Mantua.  This was the beginning of a career that would span three decades and many courts. He worked for the Hapsburgs, the Medicis, Louis XIII of France, Charles I and Philip IV of Spain, and was knighted twice. FTP, identify this painter of Allegory of Peace and War, Raising of the Cross, and Descent from the Cross – a painter most famous for his portrayals of voluptuous nude figures.
Average  He was admitted to the painter's guild in his native Antwerp in 1598 and two years later moved to Italy where he began working as a diplomat and painter for the Duke of Mantua.  
Peter Paul Rubens