As World War II drew to a close, a painting by Peter Paul Rubens was stolen from Friedenstein Castle, a Baroque palace in Gotha, Germany. Now, eight decades later, officials have successfully ...

Yet, Ludwig Burchard, a German scholar and Rubens expert, declared the painting was a work by Rubens and signed a certificate of authenticity attesting to his authorship. Still, Antwerp’s ...

1635), a painting long believed to be a copy of a lost Rubens work. A Swiss authentication firm claims that some areas of the painting bear the Flemish master’s hand—though a leading Rubens ...

In the case of a massive Peter Paul Rubens masterpiece in the artist's Belgian hometown, the studio had to be taken to the painting. In the largest room of Antwerp's Royal Fine Arts Museum ...

Including masterpieces by the likes of Pieter Bruegel the Elder, Anthony van Dyck and Peter Paul Rubens, the museums ... dancing "whirligig jigs"; a "group of half-naked and ecstatic women ...

The debate about the authenticity of a Rubens's masterpiece 'Samson and Delilah' will be reignited next week with the release of a book alleging the painting hanging in London's National Gallery ...

ANTWERP, Belgium (AP) — When an iconic painting is in need of restoration, it is usually taken to a studio to be worked on in seclusion. In the case of a massive Peter Paul Rubens masterpiece in ...