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.

Serge Adriaensen

Frans Molenaar

Eddy Asselbergs

Olivares

Tine Balder

Maria Pypelinckx

Marc Bober

Robert Borremans

Velasquez

Eddie Brugman

Peter Pourbus

Dirk Buyse

Vosterman

Domien De Gruyter

Burgemeester Rockox

Robbe De Hert

Oproerkraaier

Ingrid De Vos

Helene Fourment

Jo Decaluwe

Bernadette Degelin

Operazangeres

Herbert Flack

Ambassadeur Iberti

Marja Koppejan

Suzanne Fourment

Ludo Leroy

Balthazar Moretus

Johan Leysen

Rubens

• Roland VerhavertDirector

Release date

October 2, 1977

Status

Released

Original language

English

Runtime

4h 20m

Genres

Drama, History