Rubens: A Portrait

Paul Oppenheimer

The most popular painter of his day, yet an artist whose reputation has fluctuated among art scholars and critics of the succeeding centuries, Peter Paul Rubens (1577-1640) is chiefly remembered today for his large canvases of sensual gardens, religious scenes, and voluptuous "Rubenesque" women. In Oppenheimer's account of his life, Rubens emerges not only as a talented painter but also as an intellectual with a unique conception of beauty that proved very influential and ahead of his time. Oppenheimer explores Rubens' ideas as he tells the story of his life, which included years as a diplomat, and illuminates his response to the humanism of the Renaissance in which he lived.

Cooper Square Press

Pages: 301 •

978-1-4616-6124-5 • eBook • May 2002 • $30.00 • (£22.99)

Subjects: Biography & Autobiography / Artists, Architects, Photographers, Art / General, Art / History / General, Art / Individual Artists / General, Biography & Autobiography / General, Biography & Autobiography / Historical

Rubens: A Portrait

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The most popular painter of his day, yet an artist whose reputation has fluctuated among art scholars and critics of the succeeding centuries, Peter Paul Rubens (1577-1640) is chiefly remembered today for his large canvases of sensual gardens, religious scenes, and voluptuous "Rubenesque" women. In Oppenheimer's account of his life, Rubens emerges not only as a talented painter but also as an intellectual with a unique conception of beauty that proved very influential and ahead of his time. Oppenheimer explores Rubens' ideas as he tells the story of his life, which included years as a diplomat, and illuminates his response to the humanism of the Renaissance in which he lived.

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Cooper Square Press

Pages: 301 •

978-1-4616-6124-5 • eBook • May 2002 • $30.00 • (£22.99)

Subjects: Biography & Autobiography / Artists, Architects, Photographers, Art / General, Art / History / General, Art / Individual Artists / General, Biography & Autobiography / General, Biography & Autobiography / Historical

Author

Paul Oppenheimer , professor of Comparative Medieval Literature and English at the City College of the City University of New York and author of Infinite Desire: A Guide to Modern Guilt, lives in New York City.

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A fine portrait of the artist...provides some much needed insight into his life.
— Bookwatch

Rubens: A Portrait

Paul Oppenheimer

Rubens: A Portrait

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