Rubens
A Portrait
Edición de la obra Rubens
| Autor | Marie-Anne Lescourret |
|---|---|
| Editorial | Dee Publisher, Ivan R. |
| Fecha de publicación | 2002 |
| Idioma | inglés |
| ISBN-13 | 9781461661245 |
| Número de Cutter | L626r |
This volume is a biography of prolific seventeenth-century Flemish Baroque painter Peter Paul Rubens (1577-1640). This work presents "a vivid portrait of Rubens's enormous life against a background of the turbulent history of his times. Without neglecting his paintings, [the author] also gives the reader a fascinating picture of Rubens's career as an accomplished diplomat." The author offers a fascinating picture of war-torn Europe, court intrigue, and the interchanges between the painters, scientists, diplomats, churchmen, and political leaders of the age. Rubens is a painter whom everyone acknowledges as great but few people have understood.