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Peter Paul Rubens

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Crowded art cabinet with paintings, classical busts, a globe and scientific instruments, with a seated nude and cupid in fron

The Sense of Sight

1617

Painting of a flower and fruit garland with two cherubs, one climbing at upper left and one peeking at lower right.

Festoon of flowers and fruits and cherubs

1620

Brown-toned drawing of armored goddess Bellona among fallen warriors and nude figures, with an altar and ruined city.

Bellona

1592

Painting of a woman in white and gold led by an elderly man as a warrior gestures toward a tent, with horses and a ship nearb

Briseis returned to Achilles by Nestor

1630

Painting of mourners tending the body of the dead Christ on a cloth beside a rocky wood under a stormy sky.

The Lamentation over the Dead Christ

1613

Nude woman balancing on a glass sphere above stormy waves, holding a billowing dark cloth overhead.

Fortune

1636

Painting of Icarus tumbling headfirst through the sky with bird-like wings while Daedalus flies above him over the sea.

The Fall of Icarus

1635

Painting of Orpheus leading nude Eurydice from a fiery underworld, with a torch-bearing figure and dogs in the foreground.

Orpheus and Eurydice

1636

Seated woman in black dress and lace ruff on a balcony, with a palace and countryside landscape behind her.

The Infanta Isabel Clara Eugenia

1615

Portrait of a seated woman in a black gown, white ruff collar and pearl necklace against a brown background.

Marie de Medici, Queen of France

1622

Painting of a goddess nursing an infant among peacocks, a golden chariot, and a starry night sky with an eagle nearby.

The Origin of the Milky Way

1636

Painting of a woman in white riding a white bull through the sea, with cupids flying overhead and a coastal landscape behind.

The Rape of Europa

1628

Painting of centaurs seizing a nude woman as men fight them off near a banquet table with fruit and a classical column.

Rape of Hippodamia

1636

Painting of a centaur carrying a boy in red past two stone herms, with a hunting dog, horn and garland.

The Education of Achilles

Portrait of a woman in black dress with white lace ruff, standing before a curtain and a painted landscape backdrop.

Eleanor de' Medici, Duchess of Mantua

Rubens painting of the Holy Family with Saints Elizabeth and John the Baptist, a woman in red holding the Christ Child.

The Holy Family with Saints Elizabeth and John the Baptist

c. 1615

Virgin and Child in an oval panel framed by a dense garland of flowers, fruit and vegetables, with animals below.

The Virgin and Child in a Painting surrounded by Fruit and Flowers

1617

Oil sketch of a bearded saint in red robes with a palm and book, gazing upward among clouds with two putti.

St. Albert of Louvain

1620

Portrait of a woman in a white satin gown with a large lace ruff, holding a fan beside a red curtain and stone column.

Marchesa Brigida Spinola Doria

1606

Rubens painting of Christ in red robes handing keys to Saint Peter in yellow, with apostles watching behind them.

Christ Giving the Keys to St. Peter

1612

Painting of twin infants nursing a she-wolf under a fig tree, with a shepherd, woodpeckers, and a reclining river god.

Romulus and Remus milked by the she-wolf

1616

Portrait of a Man

1592-1640

Painting of Christ's body lowered onto a stone sarcophagus, surrounded by grieving figures under a stormy sky.

The Deposition

1602

Sleeping Venus with Cupid Watched by Satyrs

Sleeping Venus with Cupid Watched by Satyrs

1592-1640

Painting of an elderly bearded man in a red wide-brimmed hat and red robe against a dark background.

St. Jerome as a Cardinal

1625

Priest in gold vestment raises his hand in a church as crowds kneel, angels descend, and demons flee at left.

Miracle of Saint Ignatius of Loyola

1617

Jupiter and Juno on clouds with a peacock and eagle, above a chariot pulled by lions and winged cherubs with torches.

The Meeting of Marie de' Medici and Henry IV at Lyons

1621

Oil painting of the Adoration of the Magi: Mary holds the Christ Child while kneeling kings offer gold vessels in a rocky sta

Adoration of the Magi

1620

Double portrait of a man and a seated woman in elaborate 17th-century dress before a honeysuckle bower.

Rubens and Isabella Brant in the honeysuckle bower

1609

Painting of nude figures falling from heavenly light into a fiery hell filled with demons and serpents.

The Fall of the Damned

1621

Painting of armored horsemen abducting nude women on rearing horses, with a cherub and rolling landscape behind.

The Rape of the Daughters of Leucippus

1618

Rubens's The Great Last Judgement: Christ enthroned above saints and angels, with nude souls rising and demons below.

The Great Last Judgement

1617