(HL23) Onwards to Rome: Rubens’ Early Years in Italy

  Towards the end of the sixteenth century, the young Peter Paul Rubens (1577-1640) finished his training in the workshop of the Dutch-born Mannerist painter Otto van Veen (1556-1629) in Antwerp. The young, ambitious artist then turned his attention to the Italian Peninsula, a place full of artistic inspirations — both ancient and modern...