In the art of Peter Paul Rubens, the best features of Dutch art of previous eras were expressed, and his pictorial achievements became the source for the birth of many artistic trends of subsequent times. The merits of Peter Paul Rubens (1577-1640) were appreciated: he was called the "god of painters." He was made a Knight, Doctor of Cambridge University. There are many secrets around the name of Rubens, but best of all, his works and letters in which he put his soul tell about him as an artist and a person. The artist reflects on creativity, on his art. Rubens was also a diplomat who carried out important instructions of the monarchs, and he gives an assessment of the events taking place in Flanders.