Rubens and His Collaborators April 19, 2008

Peter Paul Rubens is the most celebrated exponent of the baroque style in painting. This long-term installation includes two oil sketches -- 'Neptune Calming the Tempest' and Hercules 'Strangling the Nemean Lion'-- showing Rubens working out compositions for complex subjects drawn from classical antiquity, and a large scene by Rubens's frequent collaborator, Frans Snyders.