Peter Paul Rubens

Peter Paul Rubens was born June 28th 1577 in Siegen, Westphalia. his father was sentenced to jail for adultery in Cologne for being lover to Anna of Saxony, Rubens was born after the affair. His father died in 1589 so him and his mother moved to Antwerp where he was raised Catholic. by fourteen he began his apprenticeship with Tobias Verhaeght. after that he studied under Adam van Noort and Otto van Veen . Just like the painting i chose, a lot of his early work were copies of earlier artists works. he spent a couple years of his life in Italy where he saw art by Titian, Veronese, and Tintoretto which had a vast influence on his own art. He also spent some years in Spain where he studied works by Titian and Raphael.he returned to Italy after that for a couple years, then moved back to Antwerp because of the death of his mother. Rubens then died from gout on May 30, 1640.Many of Rubens paintings were that of religious, historical, mythological of hunting subjects. His art was that of a Flemish-Baroque style which had made him popular then and now. Rubens works are worth vast amounts of money, at an auction in 2002 his painting massacre of the innocents sold for 76.2 million dollars