Rubenshuis
Painter's Italianate palazzo and studio with a Baroque stone portico and formal garden pavilion.
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About this audio guide
This guide to the Rubenshuis in Antwerp asks a simple question: how much of Peter Paul Rubens's famous home is really his? It follows the house from the painter's own drawings in the early sixteen hundreds through an English exile couple's riding school, centuries of neglect, and a Brussels world's fair. Stand facing the stone portico in the courtyard, where the sculpted gods look down at you.
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