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Rubens : a master in the making

Jaffé, David 1953- (author.). McGrath, Elizabeth (author.). Bradley, Amanda (author.). Moore Ede, Minna A. (author.). Rubens, Peter Paul 1577-1640 (artist.). National Gallery (Great Britain) (Added Author).

Summary: "Peter Paul Rubens (1577-1640) was a prodigious artist and one of the most extraordinary figures of the seventeenth century. He eventually became the dominant international painter of his generation, and this book traces his progress from hesitant beginnings in the late 1590s through to the first works made after his triumphant return to Antwerp in 1608. Most of the eight intervening years were spent in Italy, where he was inspired by classical sculpture, by the work of Renaissance masters - above all Michelangelo and Raphael - and by the revolutionary styles of Caravaggio and other contemporaries." "This book follows the artist's creative engagement with these sources and others, exploring where Rubens went and, more importantly, what he saw. He studied and copied avidly, finally transforming his influences into a style that, in paintings such as The Fall of Plaeton (National Gallery of Art, Washington), Ecce Homo (State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg) and Samson and Delilah (The National Gallery, London) is entirely, breathtakingly, his own."--Jacket.

Record details

  • ISBN: 1857093712
  • ISBN: 9781857093711
  • ISBN: 1857093267
  • ISBN: 9781857093261
  • Physical Description: print
    207 pages : color illustrations ; 30 cm
  • Publisher: London : National Gallery Co., 2005.

Content descriptions

General Note:
Accompanies an exhibition at the National Gallery, London from 26 October 2005 to 15 January 2006.
Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 199-203) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:
Rubens: a master in the making / David Jaffe and Minna Moore Ede -- Ruben's 'pocketbook': an introduction to the creative process / David Jaffe with Amanda Bradley -- Words and thoughts in Ruben's early drawings / Elizabeth McGrath -- The catalogue / David Jaffe -- 1. Early ambitions as a battle painter -- 2. Rubens on the move -- 3. The reworking of Rome -- 4. Rubens, the religious painter -- 5. Sequences: building a composition -- 6. Back to Antwerp.

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Rubens, Peter Paul 1577-1640
Painters Belgium Biography
Painting, Flemish 17th century
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