| Description |
1 online resource (256 pages) : illustrations (chiefly color) |
| Series |
Renaissance lives |
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Renaissance lives.
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| Contents |
Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- 1. Holy Spirit -- 2. Vive l'Esprit -- 3. Vital Spirits -- 4. Genial Painting -- Conclusion: Genius Loci -- References -- Further Reading -- Acknowledgements -- Photo Acknowledgements -- Index |
| Summary |
Peter Paul Rubens was the most inventive and prolific northern European artist of his age. This book discusses his life and work in relation to three interrelated themes: spirit, ingenuity, and genius. It argues that Rubens and his reception were pivotal in the transformation of early modern ingenuity into Romantic genius. Ranging across the artist's entire career, it explores Rubens's engagement with these themes in his art and life. Alexander Marr looks at Rubens's forays into altarpiece painting in Italy as well as his collaborations with fellow artists in his hometown of Antwerp, and his complex relationship with the spirit of pleasure. It concludes with his late landscapes in connection to genius loci, the spirit of the place |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Alexander Marr is Reader in the History of Early Modern Art at the University of Cambridge. His most recent book is Logodaedalus: Word Histories of Ingenuity in Early Modern Europe |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Rubens, Peter Paul, 1577-1640 -- Criticism and interpretation
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| SUBJECT |
Rubens, Peter Paul, 1577-1640. fast (OCoLC)fst01759948 |
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Painters -- Belgium -- Biography
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Painting, Flemish -- 17th century
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Painting, Baroque -- 17th century
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Art -- General.
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Art -- Individual Artists -- Monographs.
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Painters.
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Painting, Baroque.
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Painting, Flemish.
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Belgium.
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| Genre/Form |
Biographies.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Biographies.
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Biographies.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781789144000 |
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1789144000 |
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