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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The Triumph of Henry IV, c.1630 (oil on wood)

3471251 The Triumph of Henry IV, c.1630 (oil on wood) by Rubens, Peter Paul (1577-1640); 49.5x83.5 cm; Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA; (add.info.: Henry IV (1553a??1610) King of France, entering Paris in 1594 "in the manner of the triumphs of the Romans," commissioned by the kinga??s widow Marie dea?? Medici to decorate the Palais de Luxembourg.); Flemish, out of copyright

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Meeting of King Ferdinand of Hungary and the Cardinal-Infante Ferdinand of Spain at Nordlingen

3077075 Meeting of King Ferdinand of Hungary and the Cardinal-Infante Ferdinand of Spain at NA?rdlingen, 1635 (oil on panel) by Rubens, Peter Paul (1577-1640); 49.1x69.8 cm; J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, USA; (add.info.: Meeting (seen upper right) took place on the Danube River in September 1634 when the Catholic cousins agreed to combine their armies to fight Protestant forces, winning a vistory at the Battle of Nordlingen. In front is an allegorical interpretation of the defeat of the Protestant Germany.); Flemish, out of copyright

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