Peter Paul Rubens as a designer of title pages
Subtitle: title page production and design in the beginning of the seventeenth century
By: Gitta Bertram
Series: Stuttgarter Akademieschriften -- Band 1
Publisher: Arthistoricum.net, Heidelberg University Library
Published: 2018
Place of publication: [Heidelberg]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 285
ISBN-13: 9783947449132
Subjects: Title pages; Illustration of books; Book design; History
Other titles: Title page production and design in the beginning of the seventeenth century; Rubens as a designer of title pages
Description: This socio- and media-historical research on Peter Paul Rubens's title page design shows that he consciously developed its traditions. In collaboration with engravers and publishers, Rubens created 48 visual and intellectual masterpieces for a great variety of books which belonged in every seventeenth-century library of rank. His designs were not only advertisements for these works, but also for their authors and publishers, often Balthasar Moretus. Rubens's title pages were repeatedly copied, and their wide distribution contributed immensely to Rubens's fame as a learned artist, antiquarian, humanist and Catholic.--Page 4 of cover.
Notes: Revised thesis (doctoral)--Staatliche Akademie der Bildenden Künste Stuttgart, 2018.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 266-282).