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 ...

With more than 100 works on display, the European show is a chance to see masterpieces by golden age artists, including Rubens, Van Dyck, and Jordaens.

Rubens’s A Peasant Girl Churning Butter (c.1617-19), meanwhile, captures a dignity in labour. Of the Chatsworth collection’s 21 drawings by the Dutch master Rembrandt van Rijn, nine are on ...

Reproduced by permission of Chatsworth Settlement Trustees. Drawings are a far cry simpler to make than paintings, and they are accordingly easier to collect. Rubens, and other artists of his time, ...