Peter Paul Rubens, the Flemish master whose brushstroke seemed to channel the very pulse of the Baroque, was more than just a painter of voluptuous forms and vibrant tapestries of myth. He was a ...

1626: An explosion at the Wanggongchang Gunpowder Factory in Beijing destroys part of the city and kills 20,000 people. 1640: Flemish Baroque painter Peter Paul Rubens dies aged 62.

Caravaggio’s enormous popularity today may seem surprising, considering how out of sympathy his work and even his character ...

In Antwerp, the Rubens House, the house built by Flemish baroque painter Sir Peter Paul Rubens, is marking the start of the tulip season with a tulip festival. 1,000 tulips have been planted in the ...

A long-standing debate over the authenticity of a work by 17th-century Flemish Baroque painter Peter Paul Rubens at the National Gallery in London has reignited with a new book that claims the ...

In the case of a massive Peter Paul Rubens masterpiece in the artist ... On a recent morning, they were applying undertones to the Baroque masterpiece, sometimes crawling along the wood-paneled ...

In the case of a massive Peter Paul Rubens masterpiece in the artist’s Belgian hometown ... On a recent morning, they were applying undertones to the Baroque masterpiece, sometimes crawling along the ...