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How did Otto van Veen shape Peter Paul Rubens’s view of painting?

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Peter Paul Rubens: self-portrait — Peter Paul Rubens Peter Paul Rubens, self-portrait in oil, c. 1638; in the Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna.

Otto van Veen, who served as Peter Paul Rubens’s final master during his artistic training in Antwerp, played a pivotal role in shaping the young artist's perspective. Van Veen imbued Rubens with a profound sense of painting as a lofty, humanistic profession, elevating the craft beyond mere technical skill to a scholarly and intellectual pursuit.1