Little is known about this Dutch painter who settled in Italy. The earliest extant documentary reference to Stom is the parish family book from 1630 and 1631 in the Roman church of San Nicola in Arcione, where it is recorded that he was 30 years old and lived on the strada dell’Olmo. Therefore, his date of birth can be placed around 1600. Amersfoort has been his assumed place of birth, although d
No other 17th-century European painter combined artistic talent, social and economic success and a high cultural level like Rubens. Though primarily a painter, he also made numerous designs for prints, tapestries, architecture, sculpture and decorative objects. His abundant work is strikingly versatile in its subject matter, including paintings on mythological, religious and historical subjects as