Rubens A portrait
Book - 2002
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- Published
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New York :
Cooper Square Press
2002.
- Language
- English
- Main Author
- Edition
- 1st Cooper Square Press ed
- Item Description
- " ... unabridged republication of the edition first published in London, England in 1999, with ... forty textual ememdations"--Verso t.p.
- Physical Description
- 404 p. : col. ill. ; 24 cm
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 355-398) and index.
- ISBN
- 9780815412090
- Preface
- List of Illustrations
- Introduction
- I.. Rubens and the Question of Beauty
- 1.. The True Opposites of Evil and the Demonic: Prelude
- 2.. The Artist Meets the Prince
- 3.. The Landscape of the Portrait
- 4.. Publishers, the Word and Censorship
- 5.. Musicians and the Flemish Renaissance
- 6.. Painters and the Discovery of Natural Lighting
- 7.. Light and Mannerism
- 8.. Massys, Mor, Bruegel and the New Tradition
- 9.. Poetry and Painting
- 10.. History and Painting
- 11.. Sizes and Theatres
- 12.. Political Festivals, Masques and the Bliss of Illusion
- 13.. Two Weddings and the Signs of Revolution
- 14.. Family History
- 15.. The Menace of the Reformation
- 16.. The Profanation of Art
- 17.. Philip II and the Revolt in the Netherlands
- 18.. The Flight to Germany
- 19.. Refuge in Cologne
- 20.. Disappearance and Compassion
- 21.. Release and the Tragedy of Anna von Saxon
- 22.. Birth and the Months at Siegen
- 23.. Beginnings in Cologne
- 24.. 'The Common Calamity'
- 25.. The Ongoing Violence
- 26.. The Slaughter at Mons and Mechelen
- 27.. The Spanish Mutiny
- 28.. The Role of Don Juan
- 29.. The Spanish Fury
- 30.. Don Juan's Misjudgements
- 31.. Artists and the War
- 32.. The Death of Don Juan
- 33.. Alexander of Parma and the Great Betrayal
- 34.. The Theatrical Soldier
- 35.. Coups de grace
- 36.. The Family Returns to Antwerp
- 37.. Life as a Court Page
- 38.. The Apprentice Years
- 39.. The First Three Masterpieces
- II.. The Idea of Absolute Beauty
- 40.. Journey to Venice
- 41.. The 'Heavenly Shew upon the Water'
- 42.. The City of Virgil, Mantegna and Giulio Romano
- 43.. The Wedding in Florence
- 44.. Copying as Innovation
- 45.. From Mantua to Rome
- 46.. The Roman Experience
- 47.. The New Aesthetic
- 48.. The New Sensuality
- 49.. The First Roman Commission
- 50.. Excursions through Italy
- 51.. Off to Spain
- 52.. Spies and a Sea Voyage
- 53.. Disaster and Ghost-Painting
- 54.. The 'Poison Reason Drinks'
- 55.. The Revolutionary Portrait
- 56.. Mantua, Friendships and Galileo
- 57.. Stock-Taking in his late Twenties
- 58.. Rubens and the History of Ideas
- 59.. The Second Stay in Rome
- 60.. Getting Rid of 'the Smell of the Stone'
- 61.. Early Fame and a Journey to Genoa
- 62.. Rejection and a Summons Home
- III.. Beauty Human and Superhuman
- 63.. Grief and New Beginnings
- 64.. 'The Hand of the Artist'
- 65.. The Creation of Aliveness
- 66.. The Apprehension of Beauty
- 67.. The Pacts for Beauty
- 68.. Studio Life
- 69.. The 'Lover of Antiquities'
- 70.. Jealousy, War and the Engraving Business
- IV.. Kings, Queens, Ministers and the Angelic
- 71.. Large Works and the Atmosphere of Creation
- 72.. The Medici Invitation
- 73.. 'The Theme Is so Vast and so Magnificent'
- 74.. Science and Art Amid the Ruins
- 75.. The Triumph of Political Theatre
- 76.. The English Experiment
- 77.. The Artist Meets the King
- 78.. Securing the Pact for Peace
- 79.. A Previous Engagement
- 80.. A Marriage of Politics and Art
- 81.. The Fantasy of Peace and War
- V.. Rubens and Sensuality
- 82.. Toward a New Optics
- 83.. Mission Cancelled and a Second Marriage
- 84.. New Life, New Beauty
- 85.. Promoting War
- 86.. Beauty, Evil and the Whitehall Pictures
- 87.. Festivals of Love
- 88.. Ferdinand's Joyous Entry
- 89.. The Second Golden Apple
- 90.. Living out of Town
- 91.. 'The Unfortunate Europe'
- 92.. Painting Beauty Bare
- 93.. The Chance to Do 'Something Extraordinary'
- VI.. Apotheosis: Beauty and Physics
- Beauty and Physics
- Notes
- Select Bibliography
- Index