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RUBENS, Peter Paul: St Roch Altarpiece

🖼 St Roch Altarpiece, 1623-26
Oil on canvas
Aalst, Belgium

Luminous flesh tones and swirling drapery dominate this Flemish altarpiece, depicting St. Roch with plague victims in dynamic, interlocking composition. Rubens's monumental work transforms religious devotion into baroque spectacle, cementing Counter-Reformation art's emotional power and his workshop's influence across Europe.

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