rubens

It's no wonder they want to flog their Rubens sketch to the highest bidder, national treasure or not.

A short list could include old ones like Rembrandt or Rubens and a new ones like Jeff Koons or Damien Hirst.

Many sex symbols in Rubens age would be seen as clearly obese today.

The story I heard was that Rubens was originally developing a script around Pee-Wee as a Pollyanna type character.

If Rubens painted Crucifixions today, they'd be dismissed as simplistic, unchallenging, old-fashioned, trivial.

Did Titian or Rubens disregard their pecuniary rewards?

Or a second pop quiz, when da Vinci or Rubens ran workshops where apprentices painted “da Vincis” or “Rubens(s?)” who was the artist?

You do realise many very popular artists of the past including Rubens, Raphael and others had large studios where their "apprentices" actually made the paintings.

Pull a "Blow" and get Paul Rubens as Tim Thompson!

I did find this source which talked about Rubens and Rembrandt: "The structure of the work was usually as following: Rubens sketched and corrected the painting at the very end, and his "staff" was given the whole main stage.

Seeing Rubens' Prometheus Bound there as a child as part of such a program left me in awe.

However, I would love to see more attention paid to artists like Rubens, Turner, Rembrandt etc.

There are a lot more interesting works in there including Vermeer, other Rembrandt works, Pieter DeHooch, Rubens, the whole golden era of Dutch Renaissance...