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Peter Paul Rubens

1577 - 1640

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Sir Peter Paul Rubens ( ROO-bənz, Dutch: [ˈrybə(n)s]; 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's highly charged compositions reference erudite aspects of classical and Christian history. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Peter Paul Rubens has received more than 3,811,673 page views. His biography is available in 136 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 131 in 2019). Peter Paul Rubens is the 10th most popular painter, the 17th most popular biography from Germany (down from 14th in 2019) and the 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 1,421. Before him are Raphael, Rembrandt, Frida Kahlo, Salvador Dalí, Claude Monet, and Johannes Vermeer. After him are Albrecht Dürer, Edvard Munch, Caravaggio, Francisco Goya, Sandro Botticelli, 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, Nur Jahan, François Leclerc du Tremblay, Cristofano Allori, Paul Guldin, Dmitry Pozharsky, Scipione Borghese, Piet Pieterszoon Hein, Fidelis of Sigmaringen, and Louis V, Landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt. Among people deceased in 1640, Peter Paul Rubens ranks 1. After him are Murad IV, George William, Elector of Brandenburg, Francesca Caccini, Uriel da Costa, Hezârfen Ahmed Çelebi, Jindřich Matyáš Thurn, Giuseppe Cesari, Charles, Duke of Guise, Wilhelm Kettler, Vittoria Aleotti, and Maciej Kazimierz Sarbiewski.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Peter Paul Rubens ranks 17 out of 6,142. Before him are Johannes Kepler (1571), Otto von Bismarck (1815), Max Weber (1864), Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770), Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (1646), and Richard Wagner (1813). After him are Albrecht Dürer (1471), George Frideric Handel (1685), Angela Merkel (1954), Wilhelm Röntgen (1845), Anne Frank (1929), and Henry Kissinger (1923).

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Among PAINTERS In Germany

Among painters born in Germany, Peter Paul Rubens ranks 1. After him are Albrecht Dürer (1471), Caspar David Friedrich (1774), Lucas Cranach the Elder (1472), Max Ernst (1891), Matthias Grünewald (1480), Hans Memling (1435), Ernst Ludwig Kirchner (1880), Albrecht Altdorfer (1480), Franz Marc (1880), Otto Dix (1891), and Gerhard Richter (1932).

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