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Book Rubens and England

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  • Author : Fiona Donovan
  • Publisher : Paul Mellon Ctr for Studies
  • Release : 2004
  • ISBN : 9780300095067
  • Pages : 188 pages

Download or read book Rubens and England written by Fiona Donovan and published by Paul Mellon Ctr for Studies. This book was released on 2004 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This intriguing book draws for the first time a complete picture of the artistic and political connections between Rubens and the Stuart court. Fiona Donovan examines the works the great Flemish artist created for English patrons, his relationships with English courtiers beginning in 1616, and his nine-month diplomatic mission to London in 1629–30. She focuses particular attention on the series of nine canvases that Rubens painted for the Banqueting House ceiling of Whitehall Palace—a project that is considered by many to be the most significant work of art ever commissioned by the English Crown. Rubens’s iconographic scheme for the Whitehall ceiling presented English courtiers with a complex pictorial language not seen before in Great Britain. Donovan explores the artist’s allegorical imagery and provides fresh insights into the role the work of Rubens and continental culture played in politics and society at the court of Charles I.

Book Rubens and Britain

Download or read book Rubens and Britain written by Karen Hearn and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Flemish artist Sir Peter Paul Rubens (1577-1640) was one of the most internationally admired painters in seventeenth-century Europe, whose patrons included the rulers of France, Spain, Mantua and the Netherlands. Demonstrating Rubens' fluidity and freedom of invention, this work exemplifies his role as diplomatic envoy to Britain.

Book Master of Shadows

Download or read book Master of Shadows written by Mark Lamster and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2010-10-05 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although his popularity is eclipsed by Rembrandt today, Peter Paul Rubens was revered by his contemporaries as the greatest painter of his era, if not of all history. His undeniable artistic genius, bolstered by a modest disposition and a reputation as a man of tact and discretion, made him a favorite among monarchs and political leaders across Europe—and gave him the perfect cover for the clandestine activities that shaped the landscape of seventeenth-century politics. In Master of Shadows, Mark Lamster brilliantly recreates the culture, religious conflicts, and political intrigues of Rubens’s time, following the painter from Antwerp to London, Madrid, Paris, and Rome and providing an insightful exploration of Rubens’s art as well as the private passions that influenced it.

Book Drawn by the Brush

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  • Author : Peter C. Sutton
  • Publisher : Yale University Press
  • Release : 2004-01-01
  • ISBN : 0300106262
  • Pages : 284 pages

Download or read book Drawn by the Brush written by Peter C. Sutton and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2004-01-01 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Oil sketches by Peter Paul Rubens—created at speed and in the heat of invention with a colorful loaded brush—convey all the spontaneity of the great Flemish painter’s creative process. This ravishing book draws from both private and public collections to present in full color 40 of Rubens’s oil sketches. Viewers will find in these informal paintings an enchanting intimacy and gain a new appreciation of Rubens’s capacity for invention and improvisation, and of his special genius for dramatic design and coloristic brilliance. The book investigates the role of the oil sketch in Rubens’s work; the development of the artist’s themes and narratives in his multiple sketches; and the history of the appreciation of his oil sketches. It also explores some of the unique aspects of his techniques and materials. By revealing the oil sketches as the most direct record of Rubens’s creative process, the book presents him as the greatest and most fluent practitioner of this vibrant and vital medium.

Book Looking East

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  • Author : Burglind Jungmann
  • Publisher : Getty Publications
  • Release : 2013
  • ISBN : 1606061313
  • Pages : 132 pages

Download or read book Looking East written by Burglind Jungmann and published by Getty Publications. This book was released on 2013 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a fascinating exploration of the mystery that surrounds of Ruben's most well-known and intriguing drawings. Peter Paul Rubens was one of the most talented and successful artists working in 17th-century Europe. During his illustrious career as a court painter and diplomat, Rubens expressed a fascination with exotic costumes and headdresses. With his masterful handling of black chalk and touches of red, Rubens executed a compelling drawing that features a figure wearing Asian costume - a depiction that has recently been identified as Man in Korean Costume. Despite the drawings renown - both during Ruben's own lifetime and in contemporary art scholarship - the reasons why it was made and whether it actually depicts a specific Asian person remain a mystery. The intriguing story that develops involves a shipwreck, an unusual hat, the earliest trade between Europe and Asia, the trafficking of Asian slave, and Jesuit missionaries.

Book Rubens

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  • Author :
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1901
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 54 pages

Download or read book Rubens written by and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Age of Rubens

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  • Author :
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1993
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 630 pages

Download or read book The Age of Rubens written by and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 630 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Rubens

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  • Author : Anne T. Woollett
  • Publisher : Getty Publications
  • Release : 2021-11-02
  • ISBN : 1606066706
  • Pages : 194 pages

Download or read book Rubens written by Anne T. Woollett and published by Getty Publications. This book was released on 2021-11-02 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 expressions: the significance of neo-Stoic philosophy, the compositional and iconographic inspiration provided by exquisite carved gems, Rubens’s study of Roman marble sculpture, and his inventive translation of ancient sources into new subjects made vivid by his dynamic painting style. This volume is published to accompany an exhibition on view at the J. Paul Getty Museum at the Getty Villa from November 10, 2021, to January 24, 2022.

Book Rubens and the Eloquence of Drawing

Download or read book Rubens and the Eloquence of Drawing written by Catherine H. Lusheck and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-08-07 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Book Peter Paul Rubens

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  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1901
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 60 pages

Download or read book Peter Paul Rubens written by and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Rubens

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  • Author : Joost vander Auwera
  • Publisher : Lannoo Uitgeverij
  • Release : 2007
  • ISBN : 9789020972429
  • Pages : 308 pages

Download or read book Rubens written by Joost vander Auwera and published by Lannoo Uitgeverij. This book was released on 2007 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the past four years the Royal Fine Arts Museums of Belgium have undertaken a huge research

Book A Biographical History of England

Download or read book A Biographical History of England written by James Granger and published by . This book was released on 1824 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Rubens and His Spanish Patrons

Download or read book Rubens and His Spanish Patrons written by Alexander Vergara and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A study of the relationship between Rubens and his Spanish patrons.

Book Rubens Drawings

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  • Author : Peter Paul Rubens
  • Publisher : Courier Corporation
  • Release : 2014-03-05
  • ISBN : 0486138259
  • Pages : 49 pages

Download or read book Rubens Drawings written by Peter Paul Rubens and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2014-03-05 with total page 49 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A generous selection of Rubens' best drawings, chiefly portraits and religious and mythical scenes, that fully reveal his supreme artistic gifts. Publisher's note.

Book A History of England Principally in the Seventeenth Century

Download or read book A History of England Principally in the Seventeenth Century written by Leopold von Ranke and published by . This book was released on 1875 with total page 574 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book I  Dreyfus

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  • Author : Bernice Rubens
  • Publisher : A&C Black
  • Release : 2013-03-11
  • ISBN : 1448211166
  • Pages : 279 pages

Download or read book I Dreyfus written by Bernice Rubens and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2013-03-11 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sir Alfred Dreyfus is in jail, innocent of the charges against him, guilty of a lifetime of denial. Headmaster of one of Britain's most prestigious schools, knighted for his services to education, he has built a distinguished career whilst carefully concealing his Jewish roots. When he is falsely imprisoned for a horrific crime, he realises it is not just his enemies who have difficulty with his identity.

Book A History of England Principally in the Seventeenth Century  Governments in England without the parliament  Troubles in Scotland  Connexion between troubles in Scotland and those in England and elsewhere  The long Parliament and the king  down to the outbreak of the Civil War  The English Civil War  1642

Download or read book A History of England Principally in the Seventeenth Century Governments in England without the parliament Troubles in Scotland Connexion between troubles in Scotland and those in England and elsewhere The long Parliament and the king down to the outbreak of the Civil War The English Civil War 1642 written by Leopold von Ranke and published by . This book was released on 1875 with total page 570 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: