siegen

Updated: June 17, 2025

Peter Paul Rubens was born at Siegen in Westphalia, on the day of St Peter and St Paul, 1577. But though Rubens was born out of Antwerp, he was a citizen of Antwerp by descent as well as by so many later associations.

Sarah Tytler - The Old Masters and Their Pictures: For the Use of Schools and Learners in Art