摘要：In 1634 Peter Paul Rubens received a commission for a large altarpiece for the abbey in Afflighem (Hekelgem, Belgium). The altarpiece, now in the Royal Museum of Fine Arts in Brussels, depictsChrist, surrounded by a crowd of soldiers and grievers, as they climb up Mount Calvary.Several of Rubens preparatory oil sketches for this composition have been preserved to this day and by studying them we can follow the creative process of the ”making of” an altarpiece
