The Making of Rubens |
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| Author:
| Alpers, Svetlana |
| ISBN: | 978-0-300-06744-6 |
| Publication Date: | Nov 1996 |
| Publisher: | Yale University Press
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | AUD $38.99 |
Book Description:
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Reconsiders the concensus on Rubens as a successful, prolific, and facile court painter who is dwarfed by the achievements of his near-contemporary Rembrandt. This book scrutinizes the assumptions upon which this image is built, and discovers an artist involved with ambivalence and ambiguity.
Reconsiders the concensus on Rubens as a successful, prolific, and facile court painter who is dwarfed by the achievements of his near-contemporary Rembrandt. This book scrutinizes the assumptions upon which this image is built, and discovers an artist involved with ambivalence and ambiguity.