P.P. Rubens 🇩🇪 ( 1577 - 1640 ) "Portrait of Helena Fourman",1630
Royal Museum of Brussels

Peter Paul Rubens was a Flemish artist and diplomat from the Duchy of Brabant in the Southern Netherlands. He is considered the most influential artist of the Flemish Baroque tradition.

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Takes me straight to Flemish northern Renaissance artist Joachim Patinier!

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3/3 Jerome's bullseye window reflects on the wall (thank you Dürer). Outside, camels pass through Flemish landscape. Sure there's a reason for that...

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A Flemish tale says that a lawyer who had died walked out of his coffin. The gravediggers filled his coffin with stones because they didn't want to scare the people. The lawyer haunted until someone bricked up the ghost and banished him to a cellar.

🎨Wiertz

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Christ on the Cross Between the Two Thieves, 1620

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Diana and her Nymphs Surprised by the Fauns, 1640

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February 25, 1639: Flemish painter Roelant Savery dies.

Savery was apprenticed to his elder brother Jacob, who was also a painter.

After his brother's death, Roelant became court painter to Holy Roman Emperor Rudolf II (and his successor, Matthias).

🎨 "Noah's Ark", 1620s

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Baroque art soon spread out of Italy, exported by the likes of Peter Paul Rubens, the key proponent of Flemish Baroque. His vigorous, energetic and sensual flair adhered to the style accorded by the Council of Trent’s guidelines on Catholic Counter-Reformation Art (c.1560-1700).

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Theodoor van Thulden (1606 – 12 July 1669), Flemish

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Jean-Baptiste Monnoyer (12 January 1636 – 20 February 1699) was a Franco-Flemish painter.Bouquet of Flowers in a Glass Vase

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Vanitas-Darstellung by Anonymous Flemish Master (XVII c)

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The Virgin and Child with St. Elizabeth and the Infant St. John the Baptist, 1615

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