1600 – 1700
The Baroque

Peter Paul Rubens, The Rape of the Daughters
of Leucippus

Sir Peter Paul Rubens, The Rape of the Daughters of Leucippus, 1617-18, oil on canvas, 224 x 210.5 cm, Alte Pinakothek, Munich

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Peter Paul Rubens, The Rape of the Daughters of Leucippus
Antwerp, Spanish Netherlands (Belgium)
1617-18

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