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Peter Paul Rubens
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Late Career and Death
Rubens maintained his relentless pace until his death in 1640 from complications related to gout and an acute shortage of high-quality Venetian lead white. His final works show an increased interest in landscape, reflecting a growing weariness with human conflict. These later landscapes, such as Landscape with a Rainbow, are peculiar in that the horizons are consistently rendered at an el…