Rubens and the eloquence of drawing

Author(s)

• Lusheck, Catherine H
• Rubens, Peter Paul, Sir

Bibliographic Information

Rubens and the eloquence of drawing

Catherine H. Lusheck

（Visual culture in early modernity）（An Ashgate book）

Routledge, 2017

• : hbk

Note

Includes bibliographical references (p. [235]-267) and indexes

Description and Table of Contents

Description

Rubens and the Eloquence of Drawing re-examines the early graphic practice of the preeminent northern Baroque painter Peter Paul Rubens (Flemish, 1577-1640) in light of early modern traditions of eloquence, particularly as promoted in the late sixteenth- and early seventeenth-century Flemish, Neostoic circles of philologist, Justus Lipsius (1547-1606). Focusing on the roles that rhetorical and pedagogical considerations played in the artist's approach to disegno during and following his formative Roman period (1600-08), this volume highlights Rubens's high ambitions for the intimate medium of drawing as a primary site for generating meaningful and original ideas for his larger artistic enterprise. As in the Lipsian realm of writing personal letters - the humanist activity then described as a cognate activity to the practice of drawing - a Senecan approach to eclecticism, a commitment to emulation, and an Aristotelian concern for joining form to content all played important roles. Two chapter-long studies of individual drawings serve to demonstrate the relevance of these interdisciplinary rhetorical concerns to Rubens's early practice of drawing. Focusing on Rubens's Medea Fleeing with Her Dead Children (Los Angeles, Getty Museum), and Kneeling Man (Rotterdam, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen), these close-looking case studies demonstrate Rubens's commitments to creating new models of eloquent drawing and to highlighting his own status as an inimitable maker. Demonstrating the force and quality of Rubens's intellect in the medium then most associated with the closest ideas of the artist, such designs were arguably created as more robust pedagogical and preparatory models that could help strengthen art itself for a new and often troubled age.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations Acknowledgements Prologue: Rubens's Early Drawings and the Problem of Eclecticism PART I: DRAWING IN CONTEXT Chapter 1 - Setting the Stage: Privileging Eloquent Disegno in Rubens's Early Drawings Chapter 2 - Style and Eloquence in Rubens's Milieu PART II: CASE STUDIES IN GRAPHIC ELOQUENCE Chapter 3 - The Getty Medea and Rubens's Making of a Modern Senecan Grande Ame Chapter 4 - Figuring Eloquence: The Kneeling Man and Rubens's Construction of the Robust Male Nude Bibliography Index of Works Index

by "Nielsen BookData"

• NCID: BB2544243X
• ISBN:
  • 9781472477125
• Country Code: uk
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: London ; New York
• Pages/Volumes: xxxi, 287 p.
• Size: 26 cm
• Classification:
  • DC23 : 759.9493
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Rubens, Peter Paul, 1577-1640
  • LCSH : Drawing, Baroque
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA85600280
  • BB22793620