The church became a draw for 17th-century tourists because of Rubens’s famous ceiling. But in 1718, it was hit by a lightning bolt and burned down in a matter of hours.

St. Gregory of Nazianzus (1621), which depicts the titular biblical figure, belongs to a collection of sketches that Rubens created as part of a commission: decorating the ceiling of Antwerp’s ...

Peter Paul Rubens’s paintings on the Banqueting Hall ceiling depicting The Union of the Crowns, The Apotheosis of James I and The Peaceful Reign of James I. Most likely commissioned by King ...

Paintings by Peter Paul Rubens undergo restoration at the Royal Museum of Fine Arts in Belgium. By A.J. Goldmann Reporting from Antwerp, Belgium In autumn 2022, the Royal Museum of Fine Arts in ...

If I asked you to picture the most outlandish associations with London Fashion Week, you may well think of Queen Elizabeth perched on the front row, a multitude of daring beauty looks, or even ...

Stroll to St. Charles Borromeo Church (admission €5), whose facade and tower Rubens helped design. Its ceiling once featured 39 Rubens paintings, which were destroyed in a 1718 fire caused by a ...

Rubens was one of the most celebrated artists of his time, and the sketch was commissioned around 1628 while he was visiting Britain as an ambassador for King Philip IV of Spain. The work was Rubens' ...

A Rubens painting lost to history and misidentified for almost 300 years has re-emerged with the help of X-ray analysis and could now fetch up to £6 million ($7.7 million) at auction next month.

The vast decoration was painted by Rubens in 1635, and glorifies King James I and VI, who'd died a decade before. It's thought to be the only surviving ceiling work by the artist still in situ. ...

On Tuesday, U.S. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-NV, said he will put up for a vote a bill to raise the nation’s debt ceiling in the coming days that has no provisions or amendments with ...

Extensive conservation work is taking place at the Palace of Whitehall's 17th-century Banqueting House including cleaning and repairing an original Rubens ceiling painting.