Summary This historical costume drama is a mini-series on the life of Flemish first-rate Baroque painter Pieter Pauwel Rubens (1577-1640), whose artistic success throughout Europe not only made him a fortune allowing him to stock his Antwerp residence ('Rubenshuis' in Dutch) and a castle at Elewijt, in the countryside nearer Brussels, with numerous fashionable treasures, but also became an ennobled diplomat for the Spanish Hapsburg rulers of the Southern Low Countries (now Belgium), who often traveled, for painting commissions and/or diplomatic missions, to and worked in Italy, France, Spain, all Catholic powers, as well as protestant England and the United Provinces (mainly Holland), also allowing him to meet other prominent contemporaries such as artists. It further covers his marriages to Isabella Brandt and Hélène Fourment. View more details
Directed : Roland Verhavert
Written : Hugo Claus
Stars : Marc Bober Tine Balder Serge Adriaensen Eddy Asselbergs
Genres : Drama History Biography
Release date : Oct 1, 1977
Countries of origin : Belgium
Language : Dutch
Production companies : Kunst en Kino Belgische Radio en Televisie (BRT) Ministerie van Nationale Opvoeding en Kultuur
Summary This historical costume drama is a mini-series on the life of Flemish first-rate Baroque painter Pieter Pauwel Rubens (1577-1640), whose artistic success throughout Europe not only made him a fortune allowing him to stock his Antwerp residence ('Rubenshuis' in Dutch) and a castle at Elewijt, in the countryside nearer Brussels, with numerous fashionable treasures, but also became an ennobled diplomat for the Spanish Hapsburg rulers of the Southern Low Countries (now Belgium), who often traveled, for painting commissions and/or diplomatic missions, to and worked in Italy, France, Spain, all Catholic powers, as well as protestant England and the United Provinces (mainly Holland), also allowing him to meet other prominent contemporaries such as artists. It further covers his marriages to Isabella Brandt and Hélène Fourment. View more details
Genres : Drama History Biography
Release date : Oct 1, 1977
Countries of origin : Belgium
Language : Dutch
Production companies : Kunst en Kino Belgische Radio en Televisie (BRT) Ministerie van Nationale Opvoeding en Kultuur
