COMMENTARY: The Holy Father’s use of the optional Mass during Ordinary Time should spur priests worldwide to do the same.

This is Flemish artist Peter Paul Rubens’ depiction of the Apostle Peter holding the keys of Heaven. Rubens lived from 1577-1640. (Courtesy Photo) Jesus’ choices of Paul to be the apostle to ...

The dual-careers of Peter Paul Rubens, working as both a court painter and a highly respected European diplomat, won him great favor.

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Saint Thomas the Apostle of India by Peter Paul Rubens. Image Credits: Peter Paul Rubens via Wikimedia Commons. The description of Doubting Thomas is found in the Holy Bible in John 20:24-29 and reads ...

This visual narrative, of Magdalene as a half-naked woman in prayerful penance, continues through Caravaggio’s sexy and ambiguous “Mary Magdalen in Ecstasy,” from 1606, and Peter Paul Rubens ...

A long-standing debate over the authenticity of a work by 17th-century Flemish Baroque painter Peter Paul Rubens at the National Gallery in London has reignited with a new book that claims the ...

ANTWERP, Belgium — When an iconic painting is in need of restoration, it is usually taken to a studio to be worked on in seclusion. In the case of a massive Peter Paul Rubens masterpiece in the ...

Peter Paul Rubens, “The Martyrdom of St. Stephen,” ca. 1616-1617, Musée des Beaux-Arts de Valenciennes, France (photo: Public Domain) John Grondelski Blogs December 26, 2024 ...

Because it captures the dastardly event in all its lurid and gut-wrenching orgiastic carnage, Peter Paul Rubens’ 1611 The Massacre of the Innocents stands far above similar paintings of this genre.