Rubens, schilder en diplomaat

Overview

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.

Details

Status

Released

Release date

October 2, 1977

Original language

English

Countries

Belgium

Cast

Domien De Gruyter,Johny Voners,Ray Verhaeghe,Jan Pauwels,Jérôme Reehuis,Henk van Ulsen,Gaston Vandermeulen,Herbert Flack,André van den Heuvel,Johan Leysenand 34 more

Director

Roland Verhavert

Budget

Not recorded

Revenue

Not recorded

IMDb

tt0184870