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Peter Paul Rubens (1577-1640) and his landscapes : ideas on nature and art
Painting landscapes was very much a private activity for Peter Paul Rubens. Whilst the majority of his other works were commissioned, the landscapes seem to have been painted for his own pleasure and delight and stayed in the artist's possession until his death. Most of them were painted in the...
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| Document Type: | Thesis Book |
| Language: | English |
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Turnhout
: Brepols
, c 2014
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| Series: | Pictura nova
20 |
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| Online Access: | Inhaltsverzeichnis |
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[Rezension von: Corina Kleinert, Peter Paul Rubens (1577-1640) and his landscapes] |
| Author Notes: | Corina Kleinert |
| Summary: | Painting landscapes was very much a private activity for Peter Paul Rubens. Whilst the majority of his other works were commissioned, the landscapes seem to have been painted for his own pleasure and delight and stayed in the artist's possession until his death. Most of them were painted in the last decade of his life, a happy period, in which Rubens retired from public duties and spent most of his free time studying the antique and enjoying sojourns on his country estate, castle Het Steen. To grasp this profoundly personal character of Rubens's landscapes, this book considers the artist's highly complex method of pictorial invention to illuminate the perception, implementation, dissemination, and posthumous reception of views on nature and landscape as depicted in Rubens's landscape art |
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| Item Description: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 189-207) and index |
| Physical Description: | 397 S. Ill., graph. Darst. 26 cm |
| ISBN: | 250355038X 9782503550381 |
