Peter Paul Rubens
Peter Paul Rubens was a seventeenth-century Flemish Baroque painter.
Connected Sites
| Site | Rationale | Link |
| Belfries | Altarpieces The Raising of the Cross (1610) and The Descent from the Cross (1611?1614) for the Cathedral of Our Lady | |
| Florence | "Rubens travelled to Rome by way of Florence in 1601." (Wikipedia) The Palazzo Pitti has several paintings by Rubens in its collection. | |
| Genoa | Wrote I Palazzi di Genova, which includes several of the designated palaces | |
| Mantua and Sabbioneta | Mantua: lived at the court of Duke Vincenzo I of Gonzaga. | |
| Notre-Dame Cathedral in Tournai | "The liberation of souls from purgatory", 1635-1636 | |
| Paseo del Prado and Buen Retiro | "The Museo del Prado has the largest collection of Rubens' paintings, and one of the finest as well, and almost all of it comes from Spain's royal collections." | |
| Plantin-Moretus Museum | He was a friend of the family and made several paintings/bookcovers for them | |
| Rome | St. Helena with the True Cross for the Roman church of Santa Croce in Gerusalemme | |
| Venice and its Lagoon | Madonna with Child, in the baroque church Santa Maria del Giglio. |
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