The Battle of the Amazons (Rubens)

The Battle of the Amazons or Amazonomachia is an oil on wood painting produced around 1618.

[1] It shows an amazonomachy, i.e. a mythological battle between the ancient Greeks and the Amazons, a nation of all-female warriors.

The work by Rubens shows his huge admiration for Leonardo da Vinci's Battle of Anghiari, of which he owned a copy which he had touched up.

[2] It is in the collection of the Alte Pinakothek in Munich.

[3] This painting was formerly in the collection of Cornelis van der Geest and can be seen in two paintings of his art gallery in the 1630s by Willem van Haecht.