Angelica and the Hermit is a 1626–1628 painting by Peter Paul Rubens. It shows an episode from canto 8 of Ludovico Ariosto's poem Orlando Furioso. It...

A hermit, also known as an eremite (adjectival form: hermitic or eremitic) or solitary, is a person who lives in seclusion. Eremitism plays a role in...

The Hermit of Treig is a Scottish documentary film, directed by Lizzie MacKenzie and produced by Naomi Spiro. The film is a portrait of Ken Smith, an...

Miracles of St. Francis Xavier Angelica and the Hermit (1626–1628) Ildefonso Altarpiece (1630–1632) Self-Portrait (1638–39) The Fur (1638) Rembrandt: Self...

Liechtenstein around 1700. The paintings were given the Liechtenstein family seal and are recorded in the collection until the 19th century, where drawings...

Spain and in 1666 it went to the Royal Alcazar of Madrid, before hanging in the Museo del Prado. There were other variations by Rubens on the theme of...

jumble of the bodies of the damned, hurled into the abyss by archangel Michael and accompanying angels. In 1959, an art vandal threw acid on the painting...

The Rape of the Daughters of Leucippus is a 1618 painting by Peter Paul Rubens and Jan Wildens. It is displayed at the Alte Pinakothek in Munich. The...

the Flemish artist Peter Paul Rubens, now in the Museo del Prado, in Madrid. It was commissioned for the Torre de la Parada by Philip IV of Spain and...

The Elevation of the Cross (also called The Raising of the Cross) is the name of two paintings, a very large triptych in oil on panel and a much smaller...

Metamorphoses, Royal Collection Perseus and Andromeda, c. 1622, Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg Ermit and sleeping Angelica, 1628 Perseus Liberating Andromeda...

amazonomachy, i.e. a mythological battle between the ancient Greeks and the Amazons, a nation of all-female warriors. The work by Rubens shows his huge admiration...

was the second wife of Baroque painter Peter Paul Rubens. She sat for a few portraits by Rubens, and also modeled for figures in Rubens' religious and mythological...

Samson and Delilah is a painting long attributed to the Flemish Baroque artist Peter Paul Rubens (1577–1640) in the National Gallery, London. It dates...

Deucalion and Pyrrha is a 1636–1637 oil sketch by Peter Paul Rubens, now in the Museo del Prado. It is a sketch for a lost painting by Jan Cossiers -...

to facilitate the display of horror on the faces of Phaeton, the horses and other figures while preserving the darkness of the event. The butterfly winged...

stream, and the Hermit. Inside the panel, the central of the triptych depicts the body of Christ being lowered from the cross by a group of men. The Visitation...

and Omphale is a circa 1602 painting by Peter Paul Rubens, now held in the Louvre Museum in Paris. It measures 278 by 216 cm and shows Hercules and Omphale...

The Village Fête, La Kermesse or Noce de village. is a painting by Peter Paul Rubens, created in 1635–1638, now held in the Louvre Museum. It shows a...

Caravaggio, and Annibale Carracci. The expression on the face of the figure of Daniel may show this influence, as it is similar to those on the sculpture...

Italy. The painting which had been lost or misattributed for over 200 years was rediscovered in 1987 and in 1998 sold for $5.5 million US. The work then...

The Rape of Orithyia by Boreas is a 1620 painting by Peter Paul Rubens, now in the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna. It shows the rape of Orithyia by Boreas...

residing at the Staatliche Museen in Berlin. The painting was inspired from the phrase "without Ceres and Bacchus, Venus would freeze" and was completed...

the Roman festival Veneralia celebrated in honor of Venus Verticordia. Rubens thought highly of Titian and made a copy of the Venetian master's The Worship...

1633–34 as an altarpiece for the chapel at the Convent of the White Nuns in Louvain, at that time in the Spanish Netherlands and now in Belgium. A preparatory...

the goddesses Aphrodite, Athena and Hera on one side and Paris accompanied by Hermes on the other. The 1636 version has a depiction of Cupid at the far...

composition and the iconography of history painting, demonstrated in Prometheus Bound with the foreshortened figure positioned close to the viewer and the use...

of the Roman fertility goddess Ceres. It is held in the Hermitage Museum, in St Petersburg. It was sold in The Hague for 1210 guilders in 1760 and eight...

Christ on the Cross, Christ between the two murderers or Le Coup de Lance is a 1620 painting of the Crucifixion of Jesus by Peter Paul Rubens, originally...

Hercules in the Garden of the Hesperides is a 1638 painting by Peter Paul Rubens. It measures 246 cm by 168.5 cm and is now in the Sabauda Gallery in Turin...