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What was the subject of Peter Paul Rubens’s tapestry series about Decius Mus?

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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.

The tapestry series designed by the Flemish artist Peter Paul Rubens in 1616 depicted the life of the legendary Roman consul Decius Mus.1

For this project, Rubens created modelli—small-scale oil sketches—which his assistants then enlarged into full-scale canvases. These designs were subsequently used by weavers to produce the final tapestries.1