Partial reopening of the Rubens House offers a glimpse into the painter's life

A man walks by a fountain in the newly restored garden of the Rubens House in Antwerp, Belgium. Photo: AP

The city palace of Baroque painter Peter Paul Rubens is partly reopening this weekend, allowing Antwerp to show off the life and work of perhaps its most famous citizen.

The Rubens House may not have as many paintings as Madrid's Prado museum or the canvas surface spread around the port city's Cathedral of Our Lady. But if there is any place that Rubens himself felt more at home, it was his own house in Antwerp looking out over his garden.