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Peter Paul Rubens
Peter Paul Rubens was the leading painter of the Flemish Baroque, born at Siegen in Nassau, where his parents lived in exile. Trained in Antwerp and Italy, he ran a large workshop in Antwerp producing altarpieces, portraits and mythological scenes for the courts of Europe, and served as a diplomat for the Spanish Netherlands, negotiating peace between Spain and England in 1629–1630.
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