The Incredulity of Saint Thomas
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The risen Christ lifts his pierced hands toward three apostles. His side bears no wound; on that absence the museum and Kendra Grimmett doubt the traditional title. KMSKA suggests not Thomas probing but Christ's first appearance, reading the three as Peter, John and James. Rubens gives the resurrection returning blood: flushed cheeks, flexing tendons, blue veins.
Nicolaas Rockox, Antwerp's burgomaster and Rubens's friend, commissioned the epitaph with his wife Adriana Perez. It hung over their tomb in the Recollects church, between wings bearing their portraits. French troops took it to the Louvre in 1794; it returned in 1815.
Sources: KMSKA (Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp), 'The Incredulity of Thomas?', object article on the Rockox epitaph; artist given as Peter Paul Rubens with no qualifier. · Kendra Grimmett, 'The Body of Christ and the Embodied Viewer in Rubens's Rockox Epitaph', Arts 12, no. 6 (2023): 251. · KMSKA, 'Five special Rubens restorations'. · KMSKA (Koninklijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten Antwerpen), collection record 'Epitaaf van Nicolaas Rockox en zijn vrouw Adriana Perez', Peter Paul Rubens, 1613–1615, oil on panel, inv. 307-311 — herkomst (provenance) line. The same record states 'Op de zijluiken zien we de opdrachtgevers: Nicolaas Rockox (1560-1640; links) en zijn vrouw Adriana Perez (1568-1619, rechts)', carrying the wings with the couple's portraits. · KMSKA, 'History' — the museum's own account of the 1794 French seizure of Antwerp church art and the post-Waterloo return of 5 December 1815, when twenty-six paintings, mostly by Rubens, entered the academy museum. · James Pilgrim, 'Rubens's Skepticism', Renaissance Quarterly 75, no. 3 (2022): 917–67. The same article states: 'Commissioned by Nicolaas Rockox and Adriana Perez in around 1613 to serve as their funerary monument in the Church of the Friars Minor Recollects'.
Then he said to Thomas: Put in thy finger hither and see my hands. And bring hither the hand and put it into my side. And be not faithless, but believing.
John 20:27 · Douay-Rheims (Challoner), from the project’s own corpus at data/bible_drc.js
Printed on demand. Public-domain masterwork, reproduced from a 16,381 px master of the original. The whole image is printed — never cropped to fit the sheet — so every sheet carries an archival margin, and the dimensions and resolution listed above are the ones you receive.