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Peter Paul Rubens

The Drawings

By Michiel Plomp, Anne-Marie S. Logan, Peter Paul Rubens

Paperback | 9781588391414

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For the Flemish artist Peter Paul Rubens (1577–1640), drawing was a fundamental activity. Ranging from delightful renderings of children and elegant portraits of noblemen and women to vigorous animal studies and beautiful landscapes, Rubens’s drawings are renowned for their superb qualitContinue

For the Flemish artist Peter Paul Rubens (1577–1640), drawing was a fundamental activity. Ranging from delightful renderings of children and elegant portraits of noblemen and women to vigorous animal studies and beautiful landscapes, Rubens’s drawings are renowned for their superb quality and variety.

This exquisite book presents—in beautiful full-color reproductions—more than one hundred of the finest and most representative of Rubens’s drawings, from private and public collections around the world. Essays by Anne-Marie Logan and Michiel C. Plomp provide overviews of Rubens’s career as a draftsman and of the dispersal of his drawings among collectors after his death. The authors discuss the various functions of Rubens’s drawings as preparatory studies for paintings, sculpture, architecture, prints, and book illustrations. The volume also includes a sampling of the artist’s early anatomical studies and copies after antique sculpture as well as several sheets by other artists that Rubens retouched, restored, or reworked.

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  • Book Review: Master of Shadows: The Secret Diplomatic Career of the Painter Peter Paul Rubens by Mark Lamster Share

    Artists of the modern era are not known to engage in international diplomacy. Often a rebel challenging the norms of the establishment both political and cultural, sometimes beset by inner demons or addictions, the artist as conceived in the modern p ... (read full critics)

    blogcritics published on Mon, 25 Oct 2010

  • The Homer of Painting

    This winter the New York region has been blessed with two spectacular exhibitions of the work of Peter Paul Rubens, the great Flemish painter. At the Bruce Museum in Greenwich until January 30 (and continuing on to the Berkeley Art Museum and the Cin ... (read full critics)

    nybooks published on Mon, 23 Aug 2010

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Book Details

  • English Books
  • Paperback 332 Pages
  • ISBN-10: 1588391418
  • ISBN-13: 9781588391414
  • Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art New York
  • Pub date: Jan 01, 2005
  • Also available as: Hardcover
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