Rubens, schilder en diplomaat

The story

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.

Cast

S Serge AdriaensenFrans Molenaar E Eddy AsselbergsOlivares T Tine BalderMaria Pypelinckx M Marc Bober R Robert BorremansVelasquez E Eddie BrugmanPeter Pourbus D Dirk BuyseVosterman D Domien De GruyterBurgemeester Rockox R Robbe De HertOproerkraaier I Ingrid De VosHelene Fourment J Jo Decaluwe B Bernadette DegelinOperazangeres

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H Herbert FlackAmbassadeur Iberti M Marja KoppejanSuzanne Fourment L Ludo LeroyBalthazar Moretus J Johan LeysenRubens J Jan PauwelsKarel I A Ann PetersenMarie de Medicis W Ward De RavetAbraham Janssens J Jérôme ReehuisHertog Vincent van Gonzagua R Raf ReymenVader Fourment S Senne RouffaerGeneraal Spinola M Marc SimonsSoldaat E Eddy SpruytKardinaal Infant Ferdinand P Peter StrynckxFilips Rubens S Serge-Henri ValckeGerbier H Hugo Van Den BergheAdriaan Brouwer F Frans Van den BrandeHertog van Lerma N Nele van den DriesscheIsabella Brant J Joris Van Den EyndeFilips A André van den HeuvelCaravaggio D Dora van der GroenInfante Isabella B Bob Van der VekenHeer X A Alex Van RooyenAdam Van Noort H Henk van UlsenOtto Venius R Rudi Van VlaenderenKardinaal Montalto C Cara Van WerschGravin van Lalaing M Martin Van ZundertRichelieu J Johan VanderbrachtAartshertog Albrecht G Gaston VandermeulenOme Rik L Lucas VandervostJacob Jordaens R Ray VerhaegheBischop J Johny VonersSnyders R Ronny WaterschootChieppo