The Rape of the Sabine Women (Rubens)
.jpg)
The Rape of the Sabine Women is a painting by Peter Paul Rubens. It is now in the Belfius Collection. It was commissioned by Philip IV of Spain in 1639 but was still incomplete on Rubens' death a year later. It was completed by the Brussels painter Gaspar de Crayer.
Another version of this painting is now held by the National Gallery, London.[1]
The painting depicts the Rape of the Sabine Women from the mythological and historical era of ancient Rome when it was ruled by the first king Romulus.
References
[edit]- ^ London, The National Gallery. "Peter Paul Rubens | The Rape of the Sabine Women | NG38 | National Gallery, London". www.nationalgallery.org.uk. Retrieved 2018-08-27.
Bibliography
[edit]- Palais des Beux-Arts de Lille (2004) RUBENS.
 | This article about a seventeenth-century painting is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. |