Peter Paul Rubens (1577-1640) was the most admired painter of his time, and was also an eminent humanist, courtier and diplomat. His overwhelming talent and refined personality earned him fame, fortune and happiness. Very few painters of the seventeenth century (not Velázquez, nor Rembrandt, nor Vermeer) were as influential as he was among his peers, or had a similar degree of success. In spite of this, Rubens can seem distant to us today. This documentary invites us to travel to his world, and to enter the exalted version of life that he created in his paintings.

Miguel Ángel Trujillo graduated from the Escuela Oficial de Cinematografía en Madrid with a degree in Cinematography (1972). Since then, he has produced, photographed, and directed feature films, documentaries and commercials.

“Narrated by Alejandro Vergara the DVD includes – among others – conversations with Fiona Healy, Arthur Wheelock, Nico van Hout, and Juan Bordes on sculpture. Throughout, a female voice reads from Rubens’s letters. The DVD includes numerous close-ups of the Prado’s Rubens paintings”, Anne-Marie Logan, Historians of Netherlandish Art

“Intervienen distintos creadores para dar la dimensión de la huella indeleble del artista flamenco. Pasan por delante de la cámara historiadores, expertos en su obra, pensadores como Javier Gomá, artistas o bailaores flamencos de singular aroma como Israel Galván… En este sentido, el DVD se convierte en un perfecto manual que revive la riqueza de Rubens, de su figura, de sus obsesiones, de sus entusiasmos, de todo aquello que conforma el ingrediente convulso y ardiente de su pintura”, Antonio Lucas, El Mundo