This idealized portrait celebrates Republican ideals and memorializes a Revolutionary martyr in the pose of Christ.
Location Country: Belgium
Heave-ho! Rubens’s muscle-bound figures struggle to lift the cross and seem ready to burst through the painting.
Peter Paul Rubens, Elevation of the Cross
Coveted, stolen, buried, and now restored, this exceptional altarpiece has a history as colorful as its palette.
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