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Travel back to Renaissance times with Rubens and Plantin at this Belgian city and port

Eileen Wise and Roger Hermiston explore the London district of Marylebone

Eileen Wise and Roger Hermiston explore the London district of Marylebone

You take the Eurostar to Antwerp and you’re heading for a long lost city; but you might not know it.

Two of Rubens’s largest and greatest landscapes: “The Rainbow Landscape” and “A View of Het Steen in the Early Morning,” are together again, after 200 years.

The group of explorers became the first people to spend an entire winter within the Antarctic Circle.

A View of Het Steen in the Early Morning, and  The Rainbow Landscape – which were likely intended as companion pieces, showing together a panoramic view of the estate. The pendants remained in Rubens’ personal collection at his death in 1640, but after arriving in London in the 19th century they were separated, with  Het Steen presented to the National Gallery in 1826 and  The Rainbow Landscape at the Wallace Collection thirty years later. Now, an unprecedented loan from the National ...

A 400-year-old Rubens masterpiece is going on display following conservation work. Dating from around 1636, An Autumn Landscape with a View of Het Steen in the Early Morning, was in the artist’s possession when he died in 1640, together with its companion, The Rainbow Landscape. The two will be reunited, at the Wallace Collection, after being apart for more than two centuries. The works were originally intended as a pair but separated upon arrival in London in 1803. One entered the National G...

A 400-year-old Rubens masterpiece is going on display following conservation work by the National Gallery. Dating from around 1636, An Autumn Landscape with a View of Het Steen in the Early Morning, was in the artists possession when he died in 1640, together with its companion, The Rainbow Landscape. The two will be reunited, at the Wallace Collection, after being apart for more than two centuries. An Autumn Landscape with a View of Het Steen in the Early Morning by Peter Paul Rubens. The pain...