Peter Paul Rubens is best known for his Baroque paintings, but the Flemish painter also did some etchings during a sojourn in Rome, and experts believe one of them has been rediscovered in the Eternal City after having been lost for 170 years.
The work in question was inspired by Leonard da Vincis “Last Supper” and was brought to light when a psychologist who inherited it had it evaluated. Rubens spent several years in Italy, where he studied Greek and Roman art. He often commissioned printmakers to create engravings and woodcuts of his own works, but is believed to have made only a few etchings himself.
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