Rubens, schilder en diplomaat
Rubens, schilder en diplomaat
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.
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Cast
Johan Leysen
as Rubens
Dora van der Groen
as Infante Isabella
André van den Heuvel
as Caravaggio
Johny Voners
as Snyders
Jérôme Reehuis
as Hertog Vincent van Gonzagua
Serge-Henri Valcke
as Gerbier
Bob Van der Veken
as Heer X
Herbert Flack
as Ambassadeur Iberti
Eddie Brugman
as Peter Pourbus
Robbe De Hert
as Oproerkraaier
Ingrid De Vos
as Helene Fourment
Ann Petersen
as Marie de Medicis
Senne Rouffaer
as Generaal Spinola
Tine Balder
as Maria Pypelinckx
Marc Bober