Peter Paul Rubens. Image source · Public domain
The people behind the art
1577 to 1640
Peter Paul Rubens was a Flemish painter (1577–1640). Their work is associated with Flemish Baroque painting; Baroque. Their recorded places of work include Affligem; Brussels; Elewijt; Liège; Calais; Paris; La Rochelle; Genoa; Rome; Verona; Amsterdam; Breda; Delft; Haarlem; Maastricht; Rotterdam; The Hague; Utrecht; Alicante; San Lorenzo de El Escorial; Madrid; Valladolid; Dover; London; Florence; Cologne; Antwerp; Venice; Mantua.
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Artist: Peter Paul Rubens
A docent-led reading of a small devotional painting attributed to Peter Paul Rubens, showing two clasped hands in prayer. The account separates what is visible in the picture from what the surviving records can and cannot establish, including the gaps in its documentation.
Artist: Peter Paul Rubens
A gallery tour of Rubens's first major commission, painted for the private chapel of Eleonora de' Medici Gonzaga, duchess of Mantua, and rediscovered only in 2001. The tour explains the descent itself, the Eucharist symbolism the sources attach to the kneeling woman, and the archival evidence that confirms Rubens's authorship.
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