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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...
Pallas and Arachne disappeared after the Archduke Charles of Austria sacked the Torre de la Parada in 1710. But Rubens' oil sketches, delivered to Philip with the finished works, were bequeathed to a worthy duke and survived in various Spanish and Belgian art collections. Virginia's Director Leslie...
Cheek feels that he has double reason to rejoice at his new find. First, he points out, "it was done at the height of Rubens' powers, and for one of his most important and knowing clients." Secondly, Rubens at the time was running one of the greatest picturemaking factories...