This lovely coastal town called Stockholm, has one of the most impressive collections of paintings. National gallery is full of extraordinary paintings from all corners of Europe. Right now they are having a show of dutch masters Van Dyke and his teacher Peter Paul Rubens. Insanely popular painters of their time, were fans of Italian Renaissance and the giant master of the Italian painting Titan (who I discussed earlier with the mentions of the palestinian scarf ).

This is a painting called Adam and Eve..which I thought appropriate....Anyway I realized that the masterpiece that Rubens appropriated is by Titan, one of Ruben's favorites.What I find even more intriguing is that apparently prince of painters- how Van Dyke was called by his contemporaries, never painted a similar scene, or did he..?