Sir Peter Paul Rubens (June 28, 1577 – May 30, 1640) was a prolific seventeenth-century Flemish Baroque painter, and a proponent of an extravagant Baroque style that emphasized movement, color, and sensuality. He is well-known for his Counter-Reformation altarpieces, portraits, landscapes, and historical paintings of mythological and allegorical subjects. In addition to running a large studio in Antwerp, which produced paintings popular with nobility and art collectors throughout Europe, Rubens was a classically-educated humanist scholar and art collector, as well as a diplomat who was knighted by both Phillip IV, King of Spain, and Charles I, King of England.
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