Pedro pablo rubens biography of donald

Early years and Italy

Rubens was a remarkable individual.

Not only was he an enormously successful painter whose workshop produced a staggering number of works; but he also played an important diplomatic role in 17th-century European politics. He was clearly a charming and attractive companion, described as having 'a tall stature, a stately bearing, with a regularly shaped face, rosy cheeks, chestnut brown hair, sparkling eyes but with passion restrained, a laughing air, gentle and courteous'.

Peter Paul Rubens was born in Siegen in Germany, but from the age of 10 he lived and went to school in Antwerp.

Peter Paul Rubens (b.

Peter Paul Rubens (b.

Rubens was born on June 28, in Siegen, in the German province of Westfalia, where his Cavinist Flemish family had fled to escape religious persecution.

Pedro Pablo Rubens lived from to , a period commonly known to historians as the Counter-Reformation, as it was characterized by the revival of the.

Indeed, Rubens seems to have been in particular demand as a designer of tapestries, and through- out his life he would be commissioned to design them.

Peter Paul Rubens was the best known European painter in the first half of the seventeenth century.

His first job, at the age of 13, was as court page to a countess. It was a prestigious position for a young man, but Rubens found it stifling and began training as an artist.

As soon as he had completed his training, he set out for Italy in order to see for himself the great Renaissance and classical works that he knew from copies.

For eight years, he travelled