Room 88

Peter Paul Rubens

1577–1640, Flanders (Antwerp), Baroque

Rubens was painter, scholar and diplomat all at once. After eight years in Italy he ran a large workshop in Antwerp that produced altarpieces, portraits and mythological scenes for royal courts across Europe. His paintings are full of movement, light and strong colour – bodies twist, horses rear, fabrics billow.

All works

• The Fall of Phaeton
• Marchesa Brigida Spinola Doria
• Agrippina and Germanicus
• Daniel in the Lions' Den
• The Meeting of David and Abigail
• The Meeting of Abraham and Melchizedek
• The Capitoline Eagle
• Saint Catherine in the Clouds
• Pan Reclining
• Decius Mus Addressing the Legions
• Head of One of the Three Kings: Melchior, The Assyrian King
• Rudolf I and Albert I with Pallas
• The Conversion of Saint Paul
• Henry IV