Rubens, a portrait : beauty and the angelic

著者

• Oppenheimer, Paul

書誌事項

Rubens, a portrait : beauty and the angelic

Paul Oppenheimer

Duckworth, 1999

注記

Includes bibliographical references (p. 389-398) and index

内容説明・目次

内容説明

Peter Paul Rubens (1577-1640) is both one of the world's greatest painters and a mystery. His monumental canvases, featuring battling lions, sensual gardens of love, and 'Rubenesque' women, are viewed with wonder, joy and a suspicion that they have little to do with modern times. The pre-eminent genius of the Baroque, who worked as a diplomat and spy, and whose paintings are displayed in museums world-wide, studied and fought over at auctions, seems disconnected from the present. Incorporating a vivid recreation of Rubens's life, this biography of his age and its artists sets out to correct this situation. It focuses on Rubens's quest for absolute beauty, an intellectual adventure deduced from his paintings, drawings and letters, along with those of his contemporaries (including some family letters ). It reveals that Rubens's ultimate understanding of beauty is timely, foreshadowing twentieth-century cinema and science.

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詳細情報

• NII書誌ID(NCID): BA44940040
• ISBN:
  • 071562881X
• 出版国コード: uk
• タイトル言語コード: eng
• 本文言語コード: eng
• 出版地: London
• ページ数/冊数: xii, 404 p., [32] p. of plates
• 大きさ: 24 cm
• 分類:
  • DC21 : 759.9493
• 件名:
  • LCSH : Rubens, Peter Paul, Sir, 1577-1640
  • LCSH : Painters -- Belgium -- Biography
  • LCSH : Painting, Flemish
  • LCSH : Painting, Modern 17th-18th centuries -- Belgium