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.

ROME — The Roman basilica of the Augustinians — Pope Leo XIV’s religious order — preserves an iconic painting of the Virgin Mary by Caravaggio, the blockbuster artist who revolutionized the use of ...

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

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.

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 ...

In the case of a massive Peter Paul Rubens masterpiece in the artist’s Belgian hometown, the studio had to be taken to the painting. In the largest room of Antwerp’s Royal Fine Arts Museum, the ...