Rubens: A Portrait
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Rubens: A Portrait

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Rubens: A Portrait

About this book

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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Topic
Art
Subtopic
Art General

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half title
  3. Title
  4. Copyright
  5. Contents
  6. Preface
  7. List of Illustrations
  8. Introduction
  9. I. Rubens and the Question of Beauty
  10. II. The Idea of Absolute Beauty
  11. III. Beauty Human and Superhuman
  12. IV. Kings, Queens, Ministers and the Angelic
  13. V. Rubens and Sensuality
  14. VI. Apotheosis: Beauty and Physics
  15. Notes
  16. Select Bibliography
  17. Index