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What was Peter Paul Rubens’s first major commission in Rome?

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Peter Paul Rubens: self-portrait — Peter Paul Rubens Peter Paul Rubens, self-portrait in oil, c. 1638; in the Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna.

Peter Paul Rubens’s first major commission in Rome consisted of three large paintings created between 1601 and 1602 for the crypt chapel of St. Helena in the Basilica of Santa Croce.1