The Elevation of the Cross or The Raising of the Cross is the title of a large triptych painted in oil on panel by the Flemish artist Peter Paul Rubens in Antwerp in the years 1610 and 1611. It hangs
Peter Paul Rubens Raising of the Cross
Closed view showing Saints Amand and Walburga (left) and Saints Eligius and Catherine of Alexandria (right)
Study for the figure of Jesus
High Altar of the St. Walburga Church showing the Raising of the Cross in its original setting (drawn by Piet Verhaert after an old painting)
The Cathedral of Our Lady is a Roman Catholic cathedral in Antwerp, Belgium. Today's seat of the Diocese of Antwerp started in 1352 and, although the first stage of construction was ended in 1521, has
The Elevation of the Cross (Rubens)
…the title of a large triptych painted in oil on panel by the Flemish artist Peter Paul Rubens in Antwerp in the years 1610 and 1611. It hangs in the Cathedral of Our Lady in Antwerp. The work is a winged altarpiece, with hinged wings that can be folded over the central panel, allowing an 'open view' and a 'closed view…
Cathedral of Our Lady
Print of the destruction in the church, the "signature event" of the Beeldenstorm, 20 August 1566, by Frans Hogenberg
Antwerp Cathedral, Wenceslaus Hollar, 1649, National Gallery of Art
Main nave