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Saints Dominic and Francis Saving the World from Christ's Anger is an oil on canvas painting by Peter Paul Rubens, executed in 1620, now in the Museum...

created c. 1614. It is linked to his Saints Dominic and Francis Saving the World from Christ's Anger (Lyon). It is now in the Royal Museum of Fine Arts of Belgium...

in its depiction of the ritualistic and solemn lowering of Christ's body from the Cross into the arms of the believers. In 1794, the occupying French army...

attempting to lift the cross and the seemingly unbearable weight of Christ on the cross. Christ's suffering is made apparent in his strained and tense body,...

(1625) and the ceiling painting The Duke of Buckingham Triumphing over Envy and Anger (c. 1625), both later owned by the Earl of Jersey at Osterley Park...

therefore, from the directions of the twins' fixed and admiring stares, that the daughter in the lower position, with her back to us, is Phoebe, and the daughter...

Spain and in 1666 it went to the Royal Alcazar of Madrid, before hanging in the Museo del Prado. There were other variations by Rubens on the theme of...

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 and...

to facilitate the display of horror on the faces of Phaeton, the horses and other figures while preserving the darkness of the event. The butterfly winged...

directly destroy the work, as the acid "relieves one from the work of destruction". The sketch of The Fall of the Damned was made in black and red chalks,...

all take the opportunity to show nude females from different angles. The large versions of 1636 in London and 1639 in Madrid are among the best known...

as a demonstration of the artist's learnings from his time spent in Italy between 1600 and 1608, where he observed first-hand the works of Italian Baroque...

for the same church – the others were St Mary Magdalene in Ecstasy (Palace of Fine Arts, Lille) and The Virgin Mary and Saint Francis Saving the World from...

the foliage behind Adam and Eve represent Christ's death on the cross, as wine represents his blood. A plethora of exotic birds such as peacocks and macaws...

was the Greek and Roman incarnation of anger. She appears in both Virgil's Aeneid and Dante's Inferno. Alekto translates from the Greek to "the implacable...

Peter Paul Rubens, a Flemish Baroque artist from Antwerp. Influenced by the Greek play, Prometheus: The Friend of Man, Peter Paul Rubens completed this...

Son Francis, c. 1634–1635, Alte Pinakothek Portrait of Helena Fourment, c. 1638, now in the Museu Calouste Gulbenkian Rubens with Helena Fourment and their...

in the Lions' Den is a painting from around 1615 by the Flemish artist Peter Paul Rubens, now in the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. The painting...

best known today as the father of Peter Paul Rubens. Rubens was born in Antwerp to Barthélemy Ruben. He was trained as a scholar and travelled to Italy...

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 huge admiration...