Word: rubenses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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A painting that is not only a masterful work of art but also a fascinating footnote to an old mystery goes on display this week in Richmond's Virginia Museum of Fine Arts. It is Peter Paul Rubens' 10|½-in.-by-15-in. oil sketch for his...
So rich in. family detail and warmth was the painting that it became a royal favorite for two generations; it now hangs in Madrid's Prado. Scholars have long since identified the room Velàsquez pictured as one in Madrid's Alcazar. They recognized the painting hanging...
To decorate the 25 rooms of the hunting lodge, Rubens picked most of his themes from Ovid's Metamorphoses, including the famed story of the weaving match between Pallas Athena and Arachne. Bested in the contest, the goddess Athena was doubly angry because mortal Arachne dared to weave scenes...
Marble from Melos. The Louvre treasures that visitors see today represent the titanic effort made to recoup from the post-Waterloo low point. Rubens paintings from the Luxembourg palace were brought in to fill the gaps; French archaeologists sent back to the Louvre whole collections of Egyptian and Assyrian art...
Two Nudes by Rubens. The Larkins are seasonal strawberry pickers, and their way of life might be called Rabelaissezfaire. When Pop vents his heroic belches, he sounds like Charles Laughton playing Henry VIII. Pop is little seen in the strawberry fields, for he roams the countryside on a spivishly freewheeling...