Pallas and Arachne (German: Pallas und Arachne), also known as Minerva Punishing Arachne and occasionally referred to as Arachne Punished by Pallas, is...

the myth, Pallas was the daughter of the sea-god Triton, and she and Athena were childhood friends. Zeus one day watched Athena and Pallas have a friendly...

and descended through the Grosvenor family. The painting was sold from the estate of Hugh Grosvenor, 2nd Duke of Westminster at Sotheby's in 1959 and...

Collection in Vienna, Austria, along with another Rubens painting, Samson and Delilah. The Forchondt brothers sold both paintings to Hans-Adam I, Prince...

Phaeton, the horses and other figures while preserving the darkness of the event. The butterfly winged female figures represent the hours and seasons, who react...

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. According...

shows an 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...

erudite aspects of classical and Christian history. His unique and immensely popular Baroque style emphasised movement, colour, and sensuality, which followed...

Virgin and Child surrounded by the Holy Innocents or The Virgin and Child with Angels is a 1616 oil painting by Peter Paul Rubens, showing the Virgin and Christ...

by St. Francis Xavier during his mission to Asia and includes a large variety of figures from Asia and Africa, as well as the destruction of a Hindu idol...

the eldest daughter of Jan Brant, an important city official in Antwerp, and Clara de Moy, daughter of Hendrik de Moy. Her aunt Maria de Moy was married...

the artist until his death, then was purchased by king Philip IV of Spain and in 1666 it went to the Royal Alcazar of Madrid, before hanging in the Museo...

rediscovered in 1987 and in 1998 sold for $5.5 million US. The work then became part of the Fisch-Davidson collection of Baroque paintings and in turn was sold...

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 painting...

Madrid. It was commissioned for the Torre de la Parada by Philip IV of Spain and shows the influence of Michelangelo on Rubens, which he had picked up on...

the Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister in Dresden. The Hippopotamus and Crocodile Hunt The Wolf and Fox Hunt The Lion Hunt The Tiger Hunt "Catalogue entry" (in...

Venus, Cupid, Bacchus, and Ceres is a painting that was completed by Peter Paul Rubens between 1612–1613. It is a depiction of four figures from Roman...

Museum, in St Petersburg. It was sold in The Hague for 1210 guilders in 1760 and eight years later was acquired in Brussels for the Hermitage from Carl de...

Michael's Abbey, Antwerp, as an altarpiece, and paid for in two instalments of 750 guilders each in 1624 and 1626. The Virgin Mary is thought to have been...

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 -...

1617–1619 oil on canvas painting by Peter Paul Rubens. It measures 75.5 by 61 cm and is now in the Alte Pinakothek in Munich. Woollett, Anne T.; Suchtelen, Ariane...

painter Peter Paul Rubens. He first painted it in 1609 and later gave it a major reworking between 1628 and 1629 during his second trip to Spain. It is now in...

Brussels by Charles and Johannes Angelus de Schotte between 1629 and 1639. Two oil sketches for it are now in the Courtauld Institute and Yale University...

Cimon and Pero is a 1630 oil on canvas painting by Peter Paul Rubens, now in the Siegerlandmuseum in Siegen, Germany. It shows a return to the subject...

Baroque artists such as Rubens and Caravaggio. The use of Medusa as a symbol has evolved over the course of centuries and has various interpretations of...

mythological figures include Apollo and Pallas, who combat and overcome vices such as Discord, Hate, Fury, and Envy on the ground and Neptune, Pluto, Saturn, Hermes...

Jacopino del Conte, Cigoli, and Daniele da Volterra. These artists may have been inspired by the ideas of Michelangelo and earlier examples from the fifteenth...

Madrid in 1735 and this painting is a studio copy dating to 1626-1628. The subject matter of the painting is drawn from Livy 2:12 and Plutarch (Publicola...

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...

career. It depicts the mythical discovery of Tyrian purple by Hercules and his dog, and was one of dozens of oil on panel sketches made by Rubens for the decoration...