| Edition |
First Cooper Square Press edition. |
| Description |
404 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Note |
" ... unabridged republication of the edition first published in London, England in 1999, with ... forty textual ememdations"--Verso t.p. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 355-398) and index. |
| Contents |
Rubens and the question of beauty -- The true opposites of evil and the demonic : prelude -- The artist meets the prince -- The landscape of the portrait -- Publishers, the word and censorship -- Musicians and the Flemish renaissance -- Painters and the discovery of natural lighting -- Light and mannerism -- Massys, Mor, Bruegel and the new tradition -- Poetry and painting -- History and painting -- Sizes and theatres -- Political festivals, masques and the bliss of illusion -- Two weddings and the signs of revolution -- Family history -- The Menace of the Reformation -- The profanation of art -- Philip II and the revolt in the Netherlands -- The flight to Germany -- Refuge in Cologne -- Disappearance and compassion -- Release and the tragedy of Anna von Saxon -- Birth and the months at Siegen -- Beginnings in Cologne -- 'The common calamity' -- The ongoing violence -- The slaughter at Mons and Mechelen -- The Spanish mutiny -- The role of Don Juan -- The Spanish fury -- Don Juan's misjudgements -- Artists and the war -- The Death of Don Juan -- Alexander of Parma and the great betrayal -- The theatrical soldier -- Coups de grace -- The family returns to Antwerp -- Life as a court page -- The apprentice years -- The first three masterpieces -- The Idea of absolute beauty -- Journey to Venice -- The 'heavenly shew upon the water' -- The city of Virgil, Mantegna and Giulio Romano -- The wedding in Florence -- Copying as innovation -- From Mantua to Rome -- The Roman experience -- The new aesthetic -- The new sensuality -- The first Roman commission -- Excursions through Italy -- Off to Spain -- Spies and a sea voyage -- Disaster and ghost-painting -- The 'poison reason drinks' -- The revolutionary portrait -- Mantua, friendships and Galileo -- Stock-taking in his late twenties -- Rubens and the history of ideas -- The second stay in Rome -- Getting rid of 'the smell of the stone' -- Early fame and a journey to Genoa -- Rejection and a summons home -- Beauty human and superhuman -- Grief and new beginnings -- 'The hand of the artist' -- The creation of aliveness -- The apprehension of beauty -- The pacts for beauty -- Studio life -- The 'lover of antiquities' -- Jealousy, war and the engraving business -- Kings, queens, ministers and the angelic -- Large works and the atmosphere of creation -- The Medici invitation -- 'The theme Is so vast and so magnificent' -- Science and art amid the ruins -- The triumph of political theatre -- The English experiment -- The artist meets the king -- Securing the pact for peace -- A previous engagement -- A marriage of politics and art -- The fantasy of peace and war -- Rubens and sensuality -- Toward a new optics -- Mission cancelled and a second marriage -- New life, new beauty -- Promoting war -- Beauty, evil and the Whitehall pictures -- Festivals of love -- Ferdinand's joyous entry -- The second golden apple -- Living out of town -- 'The unfortunate Europe' -- Painting beauty bare -- The chance to do 'something extraordinary' -- Apotheosis : beauty and physics -- Beauty and physics -- Notes -- Select bibliography -- Index. |
| Subject |
Rubens, Peter Paul, 1577-1640.
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Painters -- Belgium -- Biography.
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| ISBN |
0815412096 cloth alkaline paper |
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9780815412090 cloth alkaline paper |
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