Haha fucking Rubens. Yeah, there was actually a French school of painting, for the aristocracy, Rococo, where everything was fat and pudgy, but painters painted that way in order to make a living and get commissions. And that was just a trend in that the aristocracy is all about keeping up with the Joneses. It was supposed to be "cherubic" and innocent and cute in the way that baby fat is supposed to be cute.  Rubens actually ran a studio the way Warhol and Kinkade did. He's one of the most prolific artists in history, and he didn't paint half of the work. Art history is kind of funny. Fucking Caravaggio was a Catholic who was way into sodomy and killed a dude over a tennis match, but because painted for the Church, he got off on all charges. Even back then it was just about who you knew.