"It might come as a surprise to anyone who has never visited Florida’s West Coast to learn from art historian Aaron H. De Groft, that “the only large painting cycle by Peter Paul Rubens outside of Europe” is housed not at a place like the Met or the Getty, but at the John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art in the beachfront town of Sarasota. Ringling’s sprawling Mediterranean compound- which includes a palatial art museum, his former winter residence, and a small museum devoted to his famous circus, contains one of the largest collections of Old Masters paintings in the country." - Kimber Scott