Rubens

Description:

This volume is a biography of prolific seventeenth-century Flemish Baroque painter Peter Paul Rubens (1577-1640). This work presents "a vivid portrait of Rubens's enormous life against a background of the turbulent history of his times. Without neglecting his paintings, [the author] also gives the reader a fascinating picture of Rubens's career as an accomplished diplomat." The author offers a fascinating picture of war-torn Europe, court intrigue, and the interchanges between the painters, scientists, diplomats, churchmen, and political leaders of the age. Rubens is a painter whom everyone acknowledges as great but few people have understood.

subjects: Painters,  Biographie,  Rubens,  Biography,  Rubens, peter paul, sir, 1577-1640,  Diplomats

People: Peter Paul Rubens Sir (1577-1640),  Petrus Paulus Rubens (1577-1640)

Places: Belgium