Change to a High-Baroque style can be seen in Rubens's work after 1620, and it is associated with a magnitude of scale hitherto unknown on Flemish painting. The propagandist nature of the cycles and their colourful decorative effect with strong Venetian traits, are elements typical of the artist's other work of the same time. As a result his altarpieces in particular bear the stamp of Counter-Reformation triumphalism even more strongly than before.

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Preview	Picture Data	File Info	Comment
	The Virgin and Child in a Garland of Flowers 1621 Oil on canvas, 83,5 x 65 cm Musée du Louvre, Paris	734*947 True Color 163 Kb
	Virgin and Child 1620-24 Oil on wood, 65 x 48 cm Musées Royaux des Beaux-Arts, Brussels	682*970 True Color 93 Kb
	Virgin and Child - Oil on panel, 62 x 50 cm St.-Niklaaskerk, Brussels	755*1070 True Color 129 Kb
	St Roch Altarpiece 1623-26 Oil on canvas St Maartenskerk, Aalst	784*1280 True Color 150 Kb
	The Adoration of the Magi 1624 Oil on panel, 447 x 336 cm Koninklijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten, Antwerp	803*1089 True Color 152 Kb
	The Adoration of the Magi (detail) 1624 Oil on panel Koninklijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten, Antwerp	850*1155 True Color 182 Kb
	The Adoration of the Magi (detail) 1624 Oil on panel Koninklijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten, Antwerp	598*750 True Color 86 Kb
	The Education of the Virgin 1625-26 Oil on canvas, 193 x 140 cm Musées Royaux des Beaux-Arts, Brussels	717*1024 True Color 123 Kb
	Adoration of the Magi 1626-29 Oil on canvas, 283 x 219 cm Musée du Louvre, Paris	769*1005 True Color 114 Kb
	Madonna Enthroned with Child and Saints c. 1628 Oil on canvas, 564 x 408 cm St. Augustinuskerk, Antwerp	756*1084 True Color 148 Kb
	Annunciation c. 1628 Oil on canvas Rubens House, Antwerp	876*1353 True Color 150 Kb
	Immaculate Conception c. 1628 Oil on canvas, 198 x 137 cm Museo del Prado, Madrid	850*1213 True Color 182 Kb