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Peter Paul Rubens

1577 - 1640

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Sir Peter Paul Rubens ( ROO-bənz; Dutch: [ˈpeːtər pʌul ˈrybəns]; 28 June 1577 – 30 May 1640) was a Flemish artist and diplomat. He is considered the most influential artist of the Flemish Baroque tradition. Rubens' highly charged compositions reference erudite aspects of classical and Christian history. His unique and immensely popular Baroque style emphasised movement, colour, and sensuality, which followed the immediate, dramatic artistic style promoted in the Counter-Reformation. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Peter Paul Rubens is the 10th most popular painter, the 20th most popular biography from Germany (down from 18th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular German Painter.

Peter Paul Rubens is most famous for his paintings, which are mostly of religious and mythological subjects.

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Among PAINTERS

Among painters, Peter Paul Rubens ranks 10 out of 2,023. Before him are Raphael, Rembrandt, Salvador Dalí, Albrecht Dürer, Frida Kahlo, and Claude Monet. After him are Caravaggio, Francisco Goya, Johannes Vermeer, Sandro Botticelli, Edvard Munch, and Diego Velázquez.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1577, Peter Paul Rubens ranks 1. After him are Christian IV of Denmark, Beatrice Cenci, Robert Burton, Scipione Borghese, François Leclerc du Tremblay, Paul Guldin, Dmitry Pozharsky, Cristofano Allori, Fidelis of Sigmaringen, Nur Jahan, and Piet Pieterszoon Hein. Among people deceased in 1640, Peter Paul Rubens ranks 1. After him are Murad IV, George William, Elector of Brandenburg, Robert Burton, Uriel da Costa, Francesca Caccini, Giuseppe Cesari, Jindřich Matyáš Thurn, Wilhelm Kettler, Jeanne de Lestonnac, Alessandro Salvio, and Maciej Kazimierz Sarbiewski.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Peter Paul Rubens ranks 20 out of 7,253. Before him are Albrecht Dürer (1471), Johannes Kepler (1571), George Frideric Handel (1685), Joseph Goebbels (1897), Otto von Bismarck (1815), and Wilhelm II, German Emperor (1859). After him are Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770), Richard Wagner (1813), Karl Benz (1844), Henry Kissinger (1923), Max Weber (1864), and Wilhelm Röntgen (1845).

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Among PAINTERS In Germany

Among painters born in Germany, Peter Paul Rubens ranks 2. Before him are Albrecht Dürer (1471). After him are Caspar David Friedrich (1774), Lucas Cranach the Elder (1472), Max Ernst (1891), Hans Memling (1435), Matthias Grünewald (1480), Ernst Ludwig Kirchner (1880), Franz Marc (1880), Albrecht Altdorfer (1480), Emil Nolde (1867), and Otto Dix (1891).

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