Artus Wolffort: Rediscovering a Rubensian Echo Artus Wolfaert (1581–1641), often spelled Wolffort, stands as a fascinating figure in Flemish Baroque art—a painter whose oeuvre was largely obscured for centuries until the late 1970s, prompting scholars to reassess his role within Rubens’s artistic circle and the broader stylistic landscape of Antwerp. His rediscovery represents not merely an expansion of our knowledge of seventeenth-ce…