Paulus Pontius was a Flemish engraver and painter. He was one of the leading engravers connected with the workshop of Peter Paul Rubens. After Rubens' death, Pontus worked with other leading Antwerp painters such as Anthony van Dyck and Jacob Jordaens.
Paul Pontius by Anthony van Dyck
Body of the dead Christ, after Titian
Gaspar de Gusman, Count of Olivares, after Rubens
Daniël Mijtens, after van Dyck
Sir Peter Paul Rubens was a Flemish artist and diplomat. He is considered the most influential artist of the Flemish Baroque tradition. Rubens's highly charged compositions reference erudite aspects of classical and Christian history. His unique and immensely popular Baroque style emphasized movement, colour, and sensuality, which followed the immediate, dramatic artistic style promoted in the Counter-Reformation. Rubens was a painter producing altarpieces, portraits, landscapes, and history paintings of mythological and allegorical subjects. He was also a prolific designer of cartoons for the Flemish tapestry workshops and of frontispieces for the publishers in Antwerp.
Self-Portrait, 1623, Royal Collection
Self-portrait with his brother Philip, Justus Lipsius and Johannes Woverius, 1597
The Fall of Phaeton, 1604, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Madonna on Floral Wreath, together with Jan Brueghel the Elder, 1619