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For nearly 40 years, the British art gallery has defended the Flemish Baroque master’s authorship of ‘Samson and Delilah’ ...
Art conservators Jill Keppens, left, and Kayla Metelenis, right, work under a scaffold on sections of the Enthroned Madonna Adored by Saints, painted by Flemish artist Peter Paul Rubens, at the ...
A Young Painter Puts Black Nudes Among Old Masters. Somaya Critchlow, 31, is showing her provocative paintings alongside a storied collection that includes work by Rubens, van Dyck and Velázquez.
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, grasping ...
A Young Painter Puts Black Nudes Among Old Masters. Somaya Critchlow, 31, is showing her provocative paintings alongside a storied collection that includes work by Rubens, van Dyck and Velázquez.
Art conservator Jantine Maessens works on a section of the Enthroned Madonna Adored by Saints, painted by Flemish artist Peter Paul Rubens, at the Royal Museum of Fine Arts in Antwerp, Belgium ...
In addition, two paintings hanging on either side of the Madonna had been cleaned 35 years ago, leaving the Rubens in the middle looking jaundiced. “It was obvious how yellow it looked.