Peter Paul Reubins was a painter of the Baroque period, characterized as a post-renaissance intellectual birthing within all the arts after awareness of things like perspective and composition gained their initial ground. Baroque compositions in the visual arts integrated fantasy and reality, and often used spirals as the basis of a composition.
Peter Paul Reubins had a team of painters that could turn out commissions in record time. One of his most noted commissions was the life of Marie de Medecis, 22 paintings that were 10' x 15' each, all completed before she died. The Louvre Museum in Paris houses this collection and had to build a room just for it. This series demonstrates many of the Baroque qualities of oil painting- spiral-oriented composition, large fleshy women (reubinesque) and creatures of fancy like mermaids and cherubs.
