The Flemish painter and diplomat Peter Paul Rubens (1577-1640) was not only the unquestioned leader of the Flemish baroque school but one of the supreme geniuses in the history of painting. During the last troubled decades of the 16th century the...

Peter Paul Rubens was born in 1577, studied painting in Antwerp, and swiftly outshone his teachers. In 1598 he became a master painter in the Guild of Saint Luke, and two years later he went to Italy and there achieved his artistic maturity....

THE most enchanting exhibition in New York at the moment is the show of drawings by the Baroque Flemish master Peter Paul Rubens (1577-1640) at the Metropolitan Museum of Art (through April 3). This gathering of 115 works on paper touches every phase...

A new museum devoted to Jewish heritage has been thrust into the art world spotlight with loaned works by Rembrandt, El Greco, Rubens and others while the Cleveland Museum of Art undergoes renovation.The Maltz Museum of Jewish Heritage, which opened in 2005, has presented well-regarded...

Under a baking sun, pieces of limestone carved with borders of rosettes and geometrical designs lay in three excavated pits Tuesday _ a desert site Israeli archaeologists say is the tomb of King Herod, who ruled the Holy Land when Christ was born.The find, which...