Two current shows of drawings—“Peter Paul Rubens: The Drawings” at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and “Cy Twombly: Fifty Years of Works on Paper” at the Whitney Museum of American Art—make a ...

When Belgian art dealer Klaas Muller snapped up a potential sleeper Old Master at an online auction three years ago, he got more than he bargained for. It appears the work isn’t just a rediscovered ...

Three years ago, a Brussels-based art dealer, Klaas Muller, followed a hunch and bought a period study on paper of an old bearded man with a glazed, almost amused stare.

NEW YORK — Out of the 115 works in “Peter Paul Rubens (1577-1640): The Drawings” at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, all but a few are fantastic. That’s an amazing batting average. Your standard show ...

Sir Peter Paul Rubens’s “Nude Study of Young Man with Raised Arms," one of the most significant drawings by the renowned master to appear on the open market in more than five decades sold for $8.2 ...

G. Cruzada Villaamil, Rubens, diplomático español, Madrid 1874, pp. 308-309; M. Rooses, L’Oeuvre de P.P. Rubens, Antwerp 1888, vol. 2, pp. 8-9, cat. no. 240; G ...

Rubens, I have been told, is an acquired taste. Modern-day viewers, even those with an appetite for the High Baroque, often find him rather over-the-top: the limpid eyes, the ruddy men with bulging ...

Peter Paul Rubens was born on June 28, 1577, in Siegen, Nassau, Westphalia, to Jan Rubens, a Calvinist lawyer, and Maria Pypelincks. Fleeing religious persecution, the family had left Antwerp in 1568 ...

Somaya Critchlow, 31, is showing her provocative paintings alongside a storied collection that includes work by Rubens, van Dyck and Velázquez. By Kadish Morris Discover medieval and Gothic ...