Rubens and His Age

by Corsiglia, Christina

• ISBN13: 9781858941271
• ISBN10: 185894127X
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2001-05-01
• Publisher: Merrell Pub Ltd

Summary

Rubens was the most important and creative Flemish artist of the seventeenth century, attaining wealth, property, rank and international acclaim, not only in the arts but also as an active participant in the world of politics and diplomacy. Painting was just one expression of his genius: he was also a highly respected scholar, connoisseur and collector, and designed prints, books, tapestries, sculpture and some of Antwerp's famed ceremonial architecture. As political and cultural barriers fell, he and his contemporaries, including Anthony van Dyck and Jan Brueghel, travelled throughout Europe when a new demand for Flemish painting arose. As a result, they produced works of art specifically for a wide variety of foreign patrons that included the different European courts, the Church and the most prominent private collectors of the age.

Table of Contents

Sponsor's Foreword	p. 6
Director's Foreword	p. 8
Director's Foreword	p. 9
Art and Visual Culture in Seventeenth-Century Flanders	p. 11
Flemish Paintings from the Age of Rubens in the Hermitage Museum	p. 27
Paintings in the Exhibition
Rubens and his Followers	p. 34
Flemish Masters outside the Circle of Rubens	p. 36
Seventeenth-Century Flemish Drawings in the Hermitage: Eighteenth-Century Taste and Collecting	p. 141
Seventeenth-Century Decorative Arts in Flanders and Russia	p. 183
Works in the Exhibition	p. 242
Bibliography	p. 251
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