Rubens in private: the master portrays his family - Rilegato

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ISBN 10: 0500093962 ISBN 13: 9780500093962

Casa editrice: Thames & Hudson, 2015

Riassunto

Michelangelo regarded portraiture as a trivial genre, and Peter Paul Rubens did not instantly develop a preference for it either. Yet Rubens succeeded, as none other, in endowing his portraits with an almost palpable sense of immediacy, and was to become one of the greatest portraitists of all time. His most beautiful and surprising portraits are those of his immediate family. These intimate pictures were not intended for public display and are therefore considerably freer and more experimental than the likenesses he painted of influential patrons. Nothing about these private images seems idealized. They are uncommonly honest and veracious and at the same time expressive of great tenderness. While the hundreds of letters he wrote reveal very little about his emotional life, Rubens portraits of family members testify in a special way to the affection he felt for his first and second wives, his brother and his children.

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Advanced new x-ray reveals Rubens' sensual secret. --Newsweek

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Michelangelo regarded portraiture as a trivial genre, and Peter Paul Rubens did not instantly develop a preference for it either. Yet Rubens succeeded, as none other, in endowing his portraits with an almost palpable sense of immediacy, and was to become one of the greatest portraitists of all time.

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• Editore: Thames & Hudson
• Data di pubblicazione: 2015
• ISBN 10: 0500093962
• ISBN 13: 9780500093962
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 272
• Redattore: Büttner Nils, De Poorter Nora, Van Der Stighelen Katlijne, Van Wyhe Cordula, Verberckmoes Johan, Vlieghe Hans, Watteeuw Bert