The Birth of the Milky Way, also sometimes known as The Origin of the Milky Way, is an oil-on-canvas painting by the Flemish artist Peter Paul Rubens,...

The Milky Way is the galaxy that includes the Solar System, with the name describing the galaxy's appearance from Earth: a hazy band of light seen in...

Bathsheba at the Fountain, c. 1635, Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister, Dresden Pastoral Scene, c. 1637, Hermitage Museum The Birth of the Milky Way,Museo del Prado...

called The Milky Way the first in a trilogy about "the search for truth", along with his subsequent films The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie and The Phantom...

mythology, Ikaroa is the long fish that gave birth to all the stars in the Milky Way or the Mother Goddess of all the stars – ornaments of the Sky God. Ika-Roa...

The Fall of the Damned, alternately known as The Fall of the Rebel Angels, is a monumental religious painting by Peter Paul Rubens dated around 1620. It...

an inversion of antisemitic artistic depictions of Jewish figures eating children, a reference to the alleged blood libel. In this way, the larger figure...

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 Three Graces is an oil painting of the Three Graces by Peter Paul Rubens. The painting was held in the personal collection of the artist until his...

is one of the few human figures with dark hair. According to Fraenger: The way this man's dark hair grows, with the sharp dip in the middle of his high...

painting by 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...

The Triumph of Death is an oil panel painting by Pieter Bruegel the Elder painted c. 1562. It has been in the Museo del Prado in Madrid since 1827. The...

from the Greek galaxias (γαλαξίας), literally 'milky', a reference to the Milky Way galaxy that contains the Solar System. Galaxies, averaging an estimated...

The Prado Mona Lisa is a painting by the workshop of Leonardo da Vinci and depicts the same subject and composition as Leonardo's better known Mona Lisa...

a hallmark of the modern condition. The way the painting shows the progress of time is also without precedent in Western art. The death of a blameless...

The Massacre of the Innocents is the subject of two paintings by Peter Paul Rubens depicting the episode of the biblical Massacre of the Innocents of...

The Judgement of Paris refers to any of the several paintings of the Judgement of Paris produced by Peter Paul Rubens, though he did not match the 22 depictions...

The Coronation of the Virgin is a 1635–1636 painting on oil on canvas by Diego Velázquez of the Holy Trinity crowning the Blessed Virgin Mary, a theme...

to the activities of NASA and the European Space Agency related to space research. The presentations include information about the birth of the Milky Way...

The Andromeda Galaxy is a barred spiral galaxy and is the nearest major galaxy to the Milky Way. It was originally named the Andromeda Nebula and is cataloged...

The Haywain Triptych is a panel painting by the Early Netherlandish painter Hieronymus Bosch, now in the Museo del Prado, Madrid, Spain. A date of around...

the Inquisition. In the first, number 23, which presents an owl, the author rebukes the greed of the inquisitors in the following way. He paints a prisoner...

that the key characteristics of the underlying drawing, the way the pictorial surface was developed, and the variety of strokes are entirely consistent...

look [the two liggers on the left of Bacchus] direct at the viewer slices clean through 350 years in the most disconcerting way. [...] However one might...

del Prado, Madrid. It shows the head of a dog gazing upwards. The dog itself is almost lost in the vastness of the rest of the image, which is empty except...

The Battle of the Amazons or Amazonomachia is an oil on wood painting produced around 1618. It shows an amazonomachy, i.e. a mythological battle between...

Cutting the Stone, also called The Extraction of the Stone of Madness or The Cure of Folly, is an oil-on-panel painting completed c.1494 or later by the Dutch...

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...

The Wild Boar Hunt is a 1618-1620 oil on oak panel painting by Peter Paul Rubens, now in the Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister in Dresden. The Hippopotamus and...

of the Spanish Baroque. It has become one of the most widely analyzed works in Western painting for the way its complex and enigmatic composition raises...