Art history students probably won't be surprised by the subject matter of Mark Lamster's new book, "Master of Shadows: The Secret Diplomatic Career of the Painter Peter Paul Rubens." But the general ...

Peter Paul Rubens was born on June 28, 1577, in Siegen, Nassau, Westphalia, to Jan Rubens, a Calvinist lawyer, and Maria Pypelincks. Fleeing religious persecution, the family had left Antwerp in 1568 ...

Extremely rare oak panel carved with the best of "Peter Paul Rubens" early 1600's. Flemish. George Way findings. (Staten Island Advance/Jan Somma-Hammel) (Staff-Shot) For those devoted collectors of ...

Even by the standards of the modern internet, which lets billions of people watch videos of calculated killings and bloodshed, Peter Paul Rubens’ 17th-century painting The Massacre of the Innocents is ...

WHATEVER pleasures there had been in being a Renaissance man, the Flemish artist, Peter Paul Rubens, took them. Every afternoon he rode his Spanish thoroughbreds. He ate richly enough to die of gout, ...

Paintings by the Flemish Baroque genius Peter Paul Rubens (1577-1640) are not what one expects to encounter at the Getty Villa in Pacific Palisades. That’s home to the museum’s extensive collections ...

ANTWERP, Belgium -- When an iconic painting is in need of restoration, it is usually taken to a studio to be worked on in seclusion. In the case of a massive Peter Paul Rubens masterpiece in the ...

From an estate outside Brussels, Flemish Baroque artist Peter Paul Rubens, aging and arthritic, set to work painting the bucolic landscape surrounding his newly acquired seven-bedroom castle. "A View ...

Amidst a buzz of rumors, the Cleveland Museum of Art paid an estimated $550,000 in 1959 for Rubens’ Diana and Her Nymphs Departing for the Chase. Last week Oil Billionaire Jean Paul Getty said he had ...