Discover Peter Paul Rubens’ 1638 “Pastoral Scene,” an intimate late Baroque painting that portrays a rustic couple locked in a sensual embrace, blending mythic pastoral tradition, warm color, and dynamic composition to explore themes of desire, power, and the union of human bodies with nature.
Explore Peter Paul Rubens’s 1638 masterpiece “Mercury and Argus,” a contemplative Baroque scene in which the messenger god lulls Argus to sleep with music beside the white cow Io, blending mythological drama, atmospheric landscape, and subtle moral tension.
Explore Peter Paul Rubens’s “The Supper at Emmaus” (1638), a powerful Baroque interpretation of the risen Christ revealed in the breaking of bread, where dramatic light, expressive disciples, and a humble inn interior combine to show revelation emerging from everyday hospitality.
Explore Peter Paul Rubens’ 1637 painting “Carrying the Cross,” a vivid Baroque depiction of Christ’s struggle on the way to Golgotha, where soldiers, women, and children crowd around the falling Savior as Veronica reaches out in compassion amid swirling movement, powerful diagonals, and emotional intensity.
Explore Peter Paul Rubens’s 1637 family portrait “Helene Fourment with her Children,” an intimate Baroque masterpiece that captures the artist’s young wife surrounded by their children, blending maternal tenderness, social status, and luminous painterly technique.
Explore Peter Paul Rubens’s “Massacre of the Innocents” (1637), a monumental Baroque painting that portrays King Herod’s brutal slaughter of infants with swirling crowds of mothers, soldiers, and anguished children set amid grand architecture and a luminous sky, revealing Rubens’s mastery of emotion, movement, and moral drama.
Explore Peter Paul Rubens’ 1637 masterpiece “The Road to Calvary,” a monumental Baroque Passion scene where Christ stumbles under the cross amid soldiers, horses, banners, and weeping onlookers, while Veronica steps from the crowd in a powerful moment of compassion and spiritual confrontation with worldly power.
Examine Peter Paul Rubens’s 1637 masterpiece “The Abduction of the Sabine Women,” a vast Baroque canvas where Roman soldiers violently seize Sabine women amid swirling crowds and monumental architecture, revealing the human cost of Rome’s legendary founding.
Discover Peter Paul Rubens’s “Tournament in front of Castle Steen” (1637), a sweeping Baroque landscape that stages a chivalric joust before the artist’s own country estate, blending dynamic horsemen, luminous sky, and expansive Flemish countryside into a vivid celebration of noble life and peaceful prosperity.
Explore Peter Paul Rubens’ 1637 masterpiece “The Origin of the Milky Way,” a dramatic Baroque mythological painting in which the goddess Juno nurses the infant Hercules, her spilled milk arcing across the night sky to form the Milky Way amid peacocks, clouds, and the watchful figure of Jupiter.
Explore Peter Paul Rubens’s 1636 version of “The Judgment of Paris,” a richly colored Baroque masterpiece in which a shepherd-prince weighs the beauty of three nude goddesses amid a glowing landscape, capturing the myth’s blend of sensuality, power, and fateful choice.
Explore Peter Paul Rubens’s “Cupid Riding a Dolphin” (1636), a lively Baroque oil sketch where a plump winged Cupid rides a fantastical dolphin across the waves, combining classical mythology, warm golden color, and energetic brushwork in a playful vision of love in motion.
Explore Peter Paul Rubens’ 1636 “Portrait of a Young Woman,” a delicate chalk drawing that reveals the Baroque master’s intimate draftsmanship, capturing a contemplative young sitter through subtle modeling of face and hands, expressive gestures, and refined, minimal lines on softly aged paper.
Discover Peter Paul Rubens’s 1636 painting “Dance of Italian Villagers,” a dynamic Baroque celebration of rural life where peasants whirl in a chain dance beneath towering trees, set against a sunlit countryside and accompanied by a hidden musician.
Explore Peter Paul Rubens’s “Mercury and Argus” (1636), a dramatic Baroque masterpiece that captures the moment before the god Mercury kills the sleeping giant Argus to free Io, set against a richly painted Flemish landscape filled with muscular anatomy, tense diagonals, and emotional symbolism.
Discover Peter Paul Rubens’ 1636 painting “Amor and Psyche,” a dramatic Baroque oil sketch that captures the fateful nighttime moment when Psyche lifts a lamp over the sleeping god of love, blending sensual light, intimate composition, and powerful symbolism of curiosity, trust, and betrayal.
Explore Peter Paul Rubens’s 1636 oil sketch “The Fall of Icarus,” a dynamic Baroque vision of the mythic boy’s fatal plunge that uses sweeping diagonals, a golden palette, and expressive anatomy to meditate on ambition, disobedience, and the tragedy of human overreach.
Discover Peter Paul Rubens’s “Fall of Phaeton” (1636), a powerful Baroque oil sketch that captures the catastrophic moment when Phaeton loses control of the sun god’s chariot, as white horses rear, a golden car spins, and the reckless youth plunges through a fiery sky in a vivid warning against hubris.