OIL PAINTING: The Judgement of Paris, 1600
By the age of 21 Rubens was a master painter whose aesthetic and religious outlook led him to look to Italy as the place to complete his education. Upon arriving in Venice in 1600, Rubens fell under the spell of the radiant color and majestic forms of Titian, whose paintings had a formative influence on Rubens's mature style. During Rubens's 8 years as court painter to the duke of Mantua between 1600 and 1608, Rubens assimilated the lessons of the other Italian Renaissance masters and made a journey to Spain in 1603 that had a profound impact on the development of Spanish baroque art.