Yahoo

Rubens is a titan of Western art. The task of restoring his paintings is equally gigantic

ANTWERP, Belgium (AP) — 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 ...
Yahoo

Rubens masterpiece, long misidentified as work of lesser artist, sells for $2.7 million

A painting by Flemish Baroque artist Peter Paul Rubens that had been out of the public eye for centuries has sold for 2.3 million euros ($2.7 million) at an auction in Paris. Rubens painted “Christ on ...
Hyperallergic

The Baroque World of Rubens as a Kinetic Carousel of the Damned

In a colossal carousel of horror, Mat Collishaw and Sebastian Burdon reinterpreted the chaotic violence of Peter Paul Rubens's "Massacre of the Innocents" paintings as a 3D-printed zoetrope. In the ...
Forbes

A New Exhibit Asks Whether The Baroque Art Of Caravaggio And Rubens Explains Toxic Populism Today

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Jonathon Keats is a writer and artist who critiques museum exhibits. They might have left it at that. Instead they began again, ...
Newsday

AP PHOTOS: Partial reopening of the Rubens House in Antwerp gives glimpse of painter's life

ANTWERP, Belgium — The city palace of Baroque painter Peter Paul Rubens is partly reopening this weekend, allowing Antwerp to show off the life and work of perhaps its most famous citizen. The Rubens ...