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  2. Peter Paul Rubens

Artist Peter Paul Rubens, 1577–1640

Works featured in these exhibitions


The Fall, Adam and Eve Tempted by the Snake, from the Diptych of the Fall and the Redemption, left wing by Hugo van der Goes
The Garden of Eden with the Fall of Man by Jan Brueghel the Elder and Peter Paul Rubens
Adam and Eve by Titian

Genesis 3:1–13
The Fall

Cain killing Abel by Niccolò Tornioli
Cain and Abel by Titian
Cain slaying Abel by Peter Paul Rubens

Genesis 4:3–16
Cain and Abel

Building of Solomon’s Temple by Giovanni Battista Ricci (designer)
'Solomon dedicates the temple; Christ thanks the Father for the Church', from a Bible Moralisée by Unknown artist
The Presentation of Jesus in the Temple; Right wing of triptych altarpiece of the Deposition by Peter Paul Rubens

1 Kings 8:62–66; 9:1–9; 2 Chronicles 7:4–22
Construction and Consecration of the Temple

Rachel Weeping for Her Children (Jeremiah 31:15) by Jacob Steinhardt
The Massacre of the Innocents by Peter Paul Rubens
Mrs Peale Lamenting the Death of Her Child by Charles Willson Peale

Jeremiah 31:1–26
Rachel Weeping

Miraculous Draft of Fishes by Peter Paul Rubens
La Pêche aux poissons des abysses (The Whale) by Giulio Romano
Miraculous Draught of Fishes by Peter Paul Rubens

Luke 5:1–11
Fishing for People

The Penance of Jane Shore in St Paul’s Church by William Blake
Feast in the House of Simon the Pharisee by Peter Paul Rubens
Mary Magdalene Leaving the House of Feasting by Dante Gabriel Rossetti

Luke 7:36–50
Redeeming the ‘Sinful Woman’


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Mystery and Melancholy of a Street by Giorgio de Chirico
Woman at the Window by Caspar David Friedrich
Mistress and Maid by Johannes Vermeer

Song of Solomon 3

Soul Desire

Belshazzar’s Feast, the Writing on Your Wall by Susan Hiller
Belshazzar's Feast by Rembrandt van Rijn
Belshazzar's Feast by John Martin

Daniel 5

The Writing on the Wall

Sacrament of Extreme Unction by Maso di Banco
From the series 'A Broken Landscape' by Gideon Mendel
The Burial of Saint Lucy by Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio

James 5:7–20

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