... William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art; and Providence, Rhode Island School of Design; 1969-70. Washington, D.C., 1969. Washington-Fort Worth-San Francisco 1985-86 Dfirer to Dehacroix: Great Master Drawingrfi'om Sroe/ehalm.
In this superb collection of 44 of his choicest drawings are deeply probing portraits and powerful religious and mythical scenes. His self-portrait, full of opulent and flowing forms, reaches out to us with a startling, penetrating gaze.
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.
The art of Rubens is rooted in an era darkened by the long shadow of devastating wars between Protestants and Catholics.
Sanderson's first-hand account is based on his observations while visiting Rubens in London in 1629–30. His detailed description of Rubens's a priori mental machinations followed by impassioned, almost ejaculatory, execution suggests ...
Seneca was certainly not the first ancient to admonish against anger by using the responses of these philosophers to the universal folly. The same sentiment is expressed by his alleged mentor, the Alexandrian Sotion, who observes that ...
In a lushly illustrated text, María Varshavskaya and Xenia Yegorova explore the master at work, bringing a unique focus to Ruben’s life and work
Now for the first time in paperback: Scribner's classic biography and introduction to the wide range of works by the great Flemish Baroque master Peter Paul Rubens (1577-1640).
Focusing on four Rubens paintings created between 1610 and 1620 - Prometheus Bound, The Rape of the Daughters of Leucippus, Juno and Argus, and The Finding of Erichthonius - this book re-examines the artist's approach to classical mythology ...
59; Horace Walpole, Aedes Walpolumae: or a Description of the Collection of Pictures at Houghton-Hall in No/folk (London, 1752), reprinted with notes in A Capital (Collection: Houghton Hall and the Hermitage, ed.