Rubens biography book

  • An ideal book for readers who wish to find out more about the life and work of one of seventeenth-century Europe's foremost painters.
  • These three biographies, never before published in English, show the impact of Rubens' life and art on three very different observers.
  • Much more than a mere exhibition catalog, this book contains well-written, detailed biographies of Peter Paul Rubens and his followers Anthony van Dyck and.

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    Rubens

    The first study devoted to classical art’s vital creative impact on the work of the Flemish painter Peter Paul Rubens.

    For the great Peter Paul Rubens (1577–1640), the classical past afforded lifelong creative stimulus and the camaraderie of humanist friends. A formidable scholar, Rubens ingeniously transmitted the physical ideals of ancient sculptors, visualized the spectacle of imperial occasions, rendered the intricacies of mythological tales, and delineated the character of gods and heroes in his drawings, paintings, and designs for tapestries. His passion for antiquity profoundly informed every aspect of his art and life.
     
    Including 170 color illustrations, this volume addresses the creative impact of Rubens’s remarkable knowledge of the art and literature of antiquity through the consideration of key themes. The book’s lively interpretive essays explore the formal and thematic relationships between ancient sources and Baroque express

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    Rubens’s Spirit

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    This lively, erudite overview of Rubens's powerful creativity includes much information about Rubens's friendships, major paintings, patronage, and personal philosophy of art. Attitudes toward Rubens demonstrate how the making of art in the long Renaissance evolved into the concept of genius in the Romantic period . . . Rubens fryst vatten a difficult subject to present in a relatively short volume, but here his multivalenced art fryst vatten explained well, with regard to a selection of his major religious and secular paintings. The tension between the physical and the spiritual is examined in early altarpieces and late Bacchic paintings, with portraits of philosophers and family, and with Ovidian myths that involve both lust and tenderness. The author fryst vatten deft in bringing into the discussion the guiding forces in Rubens's life of the Jesuits and neo-Stoicism, and his intellectual circle, which included rulers, merchants, and artists in Antwerp and Europe. Recommende

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    Historians of Netherlandish Art Reviews

    Rembrandt yes, Rubens no, would be the verdict of the museum-going public in 2000. But if anything is going to get them to think again it is this book. This is indeed a biography in the old fashioned sense; for the personality of the man is always to be sensed behind the easel. Belkin provides a wonderfully rounded, coherent and contextual account of this outwardly most public of all painters. Biographies of artists tend to treat the facts of the life as a washing line to hang out pictorial imagery, but not this. Bravely, and with scant regard to modishness, Belkin has had the courage to speak of the man, and to speak with enviable eloquence.

    This is one volume in the now extensive Phaidon Art & Ideas series, designed as an introduction to individual artists and World art perspectives, from the prehistoric to the late twentieth century. The books are thorough and exacting studies, and although intended to be accessible t

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