Its glittering retinue of Hollywood stars told the story of Perseus ... by Rubens is unusual in its depiction of a powerful black female figure (Credit: Getty Images) Peter Paul Rubens, the ...

SAN FRANCISCO — Almost every popular cliche about art and artists that has emerged in the past two centuries is spectacularly nonapplicable to Peter Paul Rubens. The great Flemish painter who ...

The Greek mythological story of Perseus and Andromeda is represented here as a quest for a maiden, read from right to left in three sections. At the upper right, Andromeda has been chained to a rock ...