Peter Paul Rubens at The Metropolitan Museum of Art (2005)

Peter Paul Rubens was no doubt a renaissance man of his own time. I am very pleased they had this exhibit back in 2005 at The Metropolitan. I strongly recommend you study the work of this Baroque versatile Flemish master, of course his paintings as well. His line drawing definition was-is stunning (and these are only his drawings) and the anatomy was exceptional.
I can personally stare at these arms and hands for the rest of my life.

From The Metropolitan Museum of Art exhibit introduction (2005)
This exhibition is the first ever devoted solely to Peter Paul Rubens as a draftsman. It spans the artist's entire career and includes examples of all the mediums he used for drawing. On view are more than one hundred of his finest and most representative studies from public and private collections in Europe, Russia, and the United States. More than thirty drawings from the world-renowned holdings of the Albertina, Vienna, form the core of the exhibition.

Peter Paul Rubens (1577–1640) was the most versatile and influential Baroque artist in northern Europe in the seventeenth century. Highly gifted and internationally oriented, the Flemish artist received commissions from almost all of Europe's major courts. His art blends the High Renaissance of Italy, with which he was familiar from an eight-year stay on the Italian peninsula, with northern realism. Having a phenomenal knowledge of classical antiquity—its art as well as its literature—he was the prototype of the pictor doctus, the intellectual artist.

Born in Siegen, Germany, Rubens spent most of his life in Antwerp, then in the Southern Netherlands. Archduke Albert and Archduchess Isabella, the rulers of the Southern Netherlands, employed him as their court painter and sought his assistance in diplomatic affairs. After Albert's death in 1621, Rubens became a close advisor to Isabella. His command of Dutch, Latin, Italian, German, and French was a great advantage during his diplomatic missions, which he always combined with painting.

More at: http://www.metmuseum.org/special/Rubens/rubens_intro.asp