Rubens Painting The Incredulity of St Thomas in Elementary's The Woman

Summary: The Peter Paul Rubens painting The Incredulity of St. Thomas may be Irene Adler's only legal original in Elementary series episode The Woman May 16, 2013.

Flemish Baroque artist Sir Peter Paul Ruben painted The Incredulity of Saint Thomas triptych (ca. 1613-1615) by Flemish Baroque artist Peter Paul Rubens (June 28, 1577-May 30, 1640), Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp, Netherlands: Web Gallery of Art, Public Domain, via Wikimedia Commons

The Peter Paul Rubens painting The Incredulity of Saint Thomas perhaps alone avows Irene Adler's abilities as restorer in The Woman episode of the Columbia Broadcasting System series Elementary May 16, 2013.

Director Seith Mann and writers Paul Doherty and Craig Sweeny bring the Peter Paul Rubens painting The Incredulity of Saint Thomas to Irene Adler (Natalie Dormer). Sherlock Holmes (Jonny Lee Miller) consults Irene at her apartment about forged or original Joseph Turner (April 23, 1775-Dec. 19, 1851) sketches for The Fighting Temeraire. Irene dismisses the sketches as "They're good forgeries but, you know, they're forgeries" just before Sherlock deems her paintings either "counts of felonious theft" or reproductions.

The Peter Paul Rubens painting The Incredulity of Saint Thomas emerges as possibly sole legitimate restoration since Irene and Sherlock never elucidate the other artworks' provenances.

The Peter Paul Rubens painting The Incredulity of Saint Thomas faces the Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec painting Rousse that fills space in front of Irene's winding staircase.

The 143- by 123-centimeter (56.2- by 48.42-inch) oil on canvas gazes upon the Pieter Bruegel painted parable The Blind Leading the Blind and the Turner Temeraire. Sherlock honors the Bruegel as the original while Irene hints that "The world would be a more interesting place with a few new Turners in it." In the everyday world outside imaginative and realistic television series the Flemish Baroque masterpiece inhabits Siegen 1577 in Antwerp, Brussels, not Irene's apartment in London, England.

The Peter Paul Rubens painting The Incredulity of Saint Thomas juggles the nickname Rockox Altarpiece and Rockox Triptych for commissioning patron, intended destination and three-panel construction.

The Peter Paul Rubens painting The Incredulity of Saint Thomas from 1615-1615 knew the Lady Chapel in the Recollects Church as its original destination in 1619.

Rubens (June 28, 1577-May 30, 1640) linked a panel with his patron's likeness and another with his patron's wife's to either side of the main panel. Curators nowadays maintain the Rockox Triptych among 14th- to 20th-century artworks in the Royal Museum of Fine Arts in Antwerp (Koninklijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten Antwerpen). Only the main panel with Thomas (died July 3, 72), Peter (died 64-67?) and Paul (died 64-67?) noting the red-garbed Jesus' wounds needed Irene's restorative talents.

Sherlock never occupies himself with the omitted couple even though Nicolaas II Rockox (Dec. 14, 1560-Dec. 12, 1640) and Adriana Perez (1568-1619) operated among Antwerp's elite.

The Royal Museum of Fine Arts online catalogue entry for Inventory number 307-311 presents the side-paneled couple as posed in sober black attire for devout faith.

Rubens queued up pearls and a rosary for Antwerp's devoutest, wealthiest Spaniard and fur, gilded buckle and right hand over the heart for her husband's philanthropy. He relayed the rich couple's reliance upon God's grace as revealed through Jesus's forgiving Peter's denying their friendship, Thomas's doubting the resurrection and Paul's persecuting Christians.

Perhaps the Peter Paul Rubens painting The Incredulity of St. Thomas shows up on Elementary's first-season finale for wounds that Sherlock should and should not suspect. No wounds from the non-existent Stapleton traumatize Irene, whose removed mole terminates her back's Auriga-like configuration of beauty marks and tells on her as Jamie Moriarty.

Is Irene Adler (Natalie Dormer) restoring only the main panel of Flemish Baroque artist Sir Peter Paul Rubens' The Incredulity of Saint Thomas triptych (ca. 1613-1615 oil on canvas), or is the solitary panel an exemplar of her forging excellence in Elementary tv series' The Woman (season 1 episode 23)?: Ari Permadi @aripermantap, via Twitter May 17, 2013

Acknowledgment

My special thanks to talented artists and photographers/concerned organizations who make their fine images available on the internet.

Image credits:

Flemish Baroque artist Sir Peter Paul Ruben painted The Incredulity of Saint Thomas as a triptych (ca. 1613-1615), but only the main panel displays on Irene Adler's (Natalie Dormer) easel when Sherlock Holmes (Jonny Lee Miller) makes her acquaintance during a visit to her studio in Elementary tv series' The Woman (season 1 episode 23); in real life, the Netherlands's Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp shelters Ruben's triptych.: Web Gallery of Art, Public Domain, via Wikimedia Commons @ https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Peter_Paul_Rubens_-_The_Incredulity_of_St_Thomas_-_WGA20193.jpg

Is Irene Adler (Natalie Dormer) restoring only the main panel of Flemish Baroque artist Sir Peter Paul Rubens' The Incredulity of Saint Thomas triptych (ca. 1613-1615 oil on canvas), or is the solitary panel an exemplar of her forging excellence in Elementary tv series' The Woman (season 1 episode 23)?: Ari Permadi @aripermantap, via Twitter May 17, 2013, @ https://twitter.com/aripermantap/status/335306678604009472

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