Rubens painted Descent from the Cross as part of an altarpiece for a cathedral in 1611.

Credit: Peter Paul Rubens, 1636. Museo del Prado, Madrid. Public Domain Cronus swallowed his children in response to a foretelling vision. They would grow up to overthrow him. Cronus’ children were ...

Peter Paul Rubens, The Medici Cycle: The Coronation of Marie de Medici (1573-1642) at St. Denis, 13th May 1610, detail of the crowning, 1621-25. Photo by Art Images via Getty Images.

One, by Rubens and his studio, is of himself, his second wife and his son in a burgeoning garden in 1630-31 with a loggia matching his own. It shows peacocks and partridges, but it also gives an ...

Somaya Critchlow, 31, is showing her provocative paintings alongside a storied collection that includes work by Rubens, van Dyck and Velázquez. By Kadish Morris Discover medieval and Gothic ...

Somaya Critchlow, 31, is showing her provocative paintings alongside a storied collection that includes work by Rubens, van Dyck and Velázquez. By Kadish Morris Discover medieval and Gothic ...

Monkman’s studio in Toronto. He continues to draw inspiration from great painters of the past like Théodore Géricault, Eugène Delacroix and Peter Paul Rubens. May Truong for The New York Times ...

A Swiss company has used artificial intelligence (AI) to investigate a version of one of Peter Paul Rubens’s most famous works, The Bath of Diana (around 1635), which was long thought to be a copy.

Art History Is This Rubens Real? Inside the ‘Samson and Delilah’ Debate A highlight of London's National Gallery, this 17th-century painting is once again at the center of an authenticity dispute.

Rubens, perhaps Antwerp’s most famous son, painted the work in 1628 in the studio of his house in the city. “It’s such a flamboyant painter that, yeah, we love it,” said Ellen Keppens ...

The king of the gods in the ancient Greek pantheon had a notorious reputation for sleeping around, so it should come as no surprise that Zeus fathered a lot of children. When you’re nearly counting ...