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.
as Frans Molenaar
as Olivares
as Maria Pypelinckx
as Velasquez
as Peter Pourbus
as Vosterman
as Burgemeester Rockox
as Oproerkraaier
as Helene Fourment
as Operazangeres
as Ambassadeur Iberti
as Suzanne Fourment
as Balthazar Moretus
as Rubens
as Karel I
as Marie de Medicis
as Abraham Janssens
as Hertog Vincent van Gonzagua
as Vader Fourment
as Generaal Spinola
as Soldaat
as Kardinaal Infant Ferdinand
as Filips Rubens
as Gerbier
as Adriaan Brouwer
as Hertog van Lerma
as Isabella Brant
as Filips
as Caravaggio
as Infante Isabella
as Heer X
as Adam Van Noort
as Otto Venius
as Kardinaal Montalto
as Gravin van Lalaing
as Richelieu
as Aartshertog Albrecht
as Ome Rik
as Jacob Jordaens
as Bischop
as Snyders
as Chieppo
