Dulwich Picture Gallery sheds new light on the Baroque master’s female subjects. Peter Paul Rubens, Portrait of a Lady, c. 1625, oil on panel, 79.7 x 65.7 cm. Courtesy Dulwich Picture Gallery. Devorah ...

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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 ...

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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, ...

Peter Paul Rubens is an artist renowned "as a painter of flesh", said Hannah McGivern in The Art Newspaper. Indeed, such was the Flemish baroque master's "penchant for nudes" that the term "Rubenesque ...

BRUSSELS (AP) -- For four centuries, the opulent, exuberant nudes of Peter Paul Rubens have been known to shock and delight in sometimes equal measure. And now, even in 2018, his Baroque paintings are ...

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