The multi-storey platform stretches to within touching distance of the great hall's ceiling, where we came face-to-face with royalty. The vast decoration was painted by Rubens in 1635, and ...

The candidate, Jim Rubens, R-Etna, said the believes there are long-term fiscal problems plaguing the country and part of any agreement to raise the debt ceiling should be a framework to fix these ...

These pictures show the extensive renovations taking place at the 17th-century Banqueting House, including cleaning and repairing an original Rubens ceiling painting installed inside the London ...

"The Banqueting House with its stunning Rubens ceiling is all that remains of the original Whitehall Palace after it was destroyed by fire in 1698. "The loss of the sketch would have been a ...

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 is one of the world’s most famous Baroque artists, known for his dramatic altarpieces, recent authentication debates, and of course, his eponymous curvy ‘Rubenesque’ beauties.

It is one of 22 surviving sketches that Rubens painted on wood in 1620 and 1621 in preparation for the ceiling paintings of the Jesuit church in Antwerp — at that time, the biggest commission he ...

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 ...

Under its nearly 50-foot-tall ceiling, the gallery houses monumental altarpieces painted by Peter Paul Rubens (1577-1640), the master of the Flemish baroque. “It’s the largest room of the old ...