Rubens y los Artistas del Barroco Flamenco

Peter Paul Rubens and Jan Breughel the Elder, The Infanta Isabel Clara Eugenia, ca. 1615, Museo Nacional del Prado. Photo: Archivo Fotográfico.

Rubens was the driving force of a creative force that conquered 17th-century Europe. His passionate, almost violently dynamic compositions and the sensuality conveyed in his work defined Baroque painting.

The nearly sixty pieces in this exhibition, including The Birth of Apollo and Diana, The Death of Seneca, and The Immaculate Conception, come from the Museo Nacional del Prado. The collection reveals the intellectual intensity and distinctive style of Rubens and his Flemish contemporaries and is divided into seven areas: Divine Passions, Image and Counter-Reformation, The Rapturous Creation, Patronage and Collecting, Art and Propaganda, Faces and Personalities, and finally, Inside and Outside and Still Life, Living Nature.