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.
Directed by Roland Verhavert
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Cast
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
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