Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - DW - 20181217:01:45:00
Still one of the country's most prized cultural treasures. today the paintings are on display in the loo floor. in antwerp archduchess isabella recognized that rubens european contacts and communication skills were valuable assets that could serve her diplomatic efforts spain and england word war she enlisted rubens now a widower to conduct negotiations and broker peace between england and spain. so rubens traveled to the spanish court in madrid. this time he was allowed to meet the king and he made a surprising discovery philip the fourth had acquired one of his works a painting commission th...