He drew convincingly as Andrea Mantegna and Nicolas Poussin, Giovanni Battista Piranesi and Peter Paul Rubens, Thomas Gainsborough and Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot.

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The raid led Citizen's Protection Minister Christos Papoutsis to criticize security at the gallery, which is home to works by Auguste Rodin, Henri Matisse and Peter Paul Rubens.

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One thing he did manage to get his hands on though, is a huge hunting scene attributed to Sir Peter Paul Rubens which hangs majestically above the fireplace in the drawing room flanked by similarly impressive works by Samuel Scott and Luca Giordano.

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Whether you are drawn to Cristofano dell'Altissimo's exotic "Portrait of Alchitrof, " king of Ethiopia (1580s), a fringe of pearls hanging from his lower lip, to Peter Paul Rubens's magnificently aristocratic "Head of an African Man Wearing a Turban" (c.1609), or to the startlingly lifelike ebonized and giltwood statue of St.

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