Peter Paul Rubens Gallery

Saint Teresa Intercedes

Saint Teresa of Avila Interceding for Souls in Purgatory, an engraving by Schelte Adams Bolswert after a painting from the workshop of Peter Paul Rubens, circa 1600. St Theresa of Avila (1515 - 1582) was a Spanish mystic, Carmelite nun, and writer of the Counter Reformation. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

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Rubens, His Wife Helena Fourment and Their Son Frans, c.1635 (oil on wood)

3471249 Rubens, His Wife Helena Fourment and Their Son Frans, c.1635 (oil on wood) by Rubens, Peter Paul (1577-1640); 203.8x158.1 cm; Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA; (add.info.: The artist with his second wife Helena Fourment (1614a??1673) and Son Frans (1633a??1678) strolling in a "Garden of Love." Homage to Helena as wife and mother providing her husband with a son. ); Flemish, out of copyright

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The Virgin as the Woman of the Apocalypse, c.1623-4 (oil on panel)

3077055 The Virgin as the Woman of the Apocalypse, c.1623-4 (oil on panel) by Rubens, Peter Paul (1577-1640); 64.5x49.8 cm; J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, USA; (add.info.: Altarpiece of Freising Cathedral in southern Germany. Virgin Mary holds the Christ Child and tramples the serpent of sin. Archangel Michael and angels cast out Satan, the "great red dragon with seven heads," and other demons. God the Father instructs an angel to place a pair of wings on the Virgin's shoulders. ); Flemish, out of copyright

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