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Banqueting House

Ruben's Ceiling ...A masterpiece from the golden age of painting. Look up in the main hall of the Banqueting House at Whitehall. The only surviving in-situ ceiling painting of Peter Paul Rubens is also one of the most famous from a golden age of painting. The ceiling was one of Charles I’s last sights before he lost his head. The King was executed on a scaffold outside in 1649.