Peter Paul Rubens
(1577 - 1640)

 

Sir Peter Paul Rubens was a Flemish artist and diplomat from the Duchy of Brabant in the Southern Netherlands (modern-day Belgium). He is considered the most influential artist of the Flemish Baroque tradition. Rubens's highly charged compositions reference erudite aspects of classical and Christian history. His unique and immensely popular Baroque style emphasized movement, colour, and sensuality, which followed the immediate, dramatic artistic style promoted in the Counter-Reformation. Rubens was a painter producing altarpieces, portraits, landscapes, and history paintings of mythological and allegorical subjects. He was also a prolific designer of cartoons for the Flemish tapestry workshops and of frontispieces for the publishers in Antwerp.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Paul_Rubens

La_adoración_de_los_Reyes_Magos  (Adoration of the Magi )
Between 1628 and 1629
Oil on panel
355,5 x 493 cm
Museo del Prado
https://www.museodelprado.es/coleccion/obra-de-arte/wd/b6440da1-0c0c-4ead-84b7-f5a017e2fd17

 

The painting had to be cut from its frame with a knife, rolled up and thrown out of a window during a fire at the Royal Alcazar of Madrid in 1734 - the cuts and small blisters in the paint (caused by exposure to the heat of the fire) are still visible, though it was otherwise undamaged.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adoration_of_the_Magi_(Rubens,_Madrid