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Before you stands one of the most joyous paintings in Western art. Rubens completed The Three Graces around 1635; it hangs today in the Prado. Three goddesses — Euphrosyne, Aglaea, and Thalia — sway in tender embrace within a luminous landscape.
Nothing here is ceremonial. This is Rubens at his most contented.
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Madrid
Room 29 · Level 1
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