Rubens (Basic Art)

Rubens (Basic Art)

<strong>Baroque and Roll</strong><br /> Meet Sir Peter Paul Rubens, master painter and polymath<br /><br />There are over 1,000 catalogued works by <strong>Sir Peter Paul Rubens</strong> (1577–1640), the 16th-century flag bearer for Baroque drama, movement, and sensuality. This essential introduction takes in the <strong>most important works from this astonishingly prolific oeuvre</strong> to explore Rubens’s influences and innovations, and his remarkable visual, and art historical, impact.<br /><br /> The richly illustrated survey takes in Rubens’s<strong> portraits, landscapes, historical paintings,</strong> as well as his famed and<strong> bountiful nudes</strong>. Along the way, we examine the artist’s <strong>astonishing technique</strong> and his <strong>deft ability to depict narrative</strong> in a compelling and legible visual form, whether an erotic mythologial scene or a tender biblical story. This remarkable artistic bravura is placed in context both with Rubens’s <strong>long art historical legacy</strong> through van Dyck, Velázquez, and beyond, and his other talents as a classical scholar, diplomat, and knight.