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A countdown of the five craziest Greek gods. Who will be #1? The most jealous, angry, violent, fun-loving, or creative?
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.
The sale achieved a 62% sell through rate and made new auction records for Luis Meléndez and Frans Post. When one thinks of any Golden Age, the first thing that comes to mind is the 17th-century ...
The Annunciation is a key event in the Christian biblical story. A Swiss company has examined a version of Rubens’s ‘The Bath of Diana’, which was long thought to be a copy, and believes it could be ...
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 ...
For instance, Elisabeth Vigée Le Brun’s Self Portrait in a Straw Hat (1782) is hung in the same octagonal space (Room 15) asthe picture that inspired it, Peter Paul Rubens’s presumed Portrait ...
Activist and convener of the Free Nigeria Movement, Moses Paul, has criticized Senator Godswill Akpabio following his recent attack on Peter Obi, the 2023 presidential candidate of the Labour Party.
Splendid rooms celebrate individual artists – Peter Paul Rubens, Rembrandt, Claude Monet (but not, surprisingly, Diego Velázquez) – including an instant-classic gallery with 10 (count ’em!) ...