Peter Paul Rubens

Sir Peter Paul Rubens was a Flemish artist and diplomat. He is considered the most influential artist of the Flemish Baroque tradition. Rubens's highly charged compositions reference erudite aspects of classical and Christian history. His unique and immensely popular Baroque style emphasized movement, colour, and sensuality, which followed the immediate, dramatic artistic style promoted in the Counter-Reformation. Rubens was a painter producing altarpieces, portraits, landscapes, and history paintings of mythological and allegorical subjects. He was also a prolific designer of cartoons for the Flemish tapestry workshops and of frontispieces for the publishers in Antwerp.

28 June 1577

Born on the same birth day (28 June): Alice Krige • Felicia Day • George Booth (cartoonist) • George Lloyd (composer) • Henri Lebesgue • Jaime Guzmán • Joseph P. Lordi • Ken Buchanan • Leona Aglukkaq • Muhammad Yunus • Steve Williamson • Türkan Şoray

Born in the same month (June 1577): Paul Guldin