A miniseries 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.

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Cast

Tine Balder

Maria Pypelinckx

Marc Bober

Eddie Brugman

Peter Pourbus

Robbe De Hert

Oproerkraaier

Ingrid De Vos

Helene Fourment

Herbert Flack

Ambassadeur Iberti

Johan Leysen

Rubens

Ann Petersen

Marie de Medicis

Ward De Ravet

Abraham Janssens