Rubens
Subtitle: the power of transformation
By: on behalf of the Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna, and the Städel Museum, Frankfurt am Main, edited by Gerlinde Gruber, Sabine Haag, Stefan Weppelmann and Jochen Sander ; translation from German to English, Michael Scuffil, Josephine Cordero-Sapien
Contributors: Georgievska-Shine, Aneta, contributor; Vergara, Alexander, 1960- contributor; Büttner, Nils, contributor; Jaffé, David, 1953- contributor; Hout, Nico van, contributor; Healy, Fiona, contributor; Cordero Sapien, Josephine, translator; Rubens, Peter Paul, 1577-1640, artist; Hirmer Verlag; Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien; Städtische Galerie im Städelschen Kunstinstitut Frankfurt am Main; Städtische Galerie im Städelschen Kunstinstitut Frankfurt am Main
Publisher: Hirmer Verlag GmbH
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 309
ISBN-13: 9783777428581
Copyright date: 2017
Subjects: Flemish Painting; Exhibitions; Italian influences; Baroque Painting; Themes, motives; Criticism and interpretation
Other titles: Power of transformation
Description: The creative study of the important works of his predecessors and contemporaries occupied Peter Paul Rubens (1577-1640) throughout his life and left its mark on the works he produced over a period of fifty years. The comparison of his works with sculptures from Antiquity and the Renaissance, paintings by Titian, Tintoretto and Caravaggio and prints by Raimondi and Goltzius reveals a fascinating view of Rubens's surprising transformation of subjects, his new presentation of familiar pictorial themes and his skilled search for the right format. Only thus does the exceptional talent of this great master become tangible. Rubens's works continue to enchant the present-day viewer as directly as they did during his lifetime.
Notes: Published on the occasion of the exhibition held at the Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien, 17 October 2017 - 21 January 2018 and at the Städel Museum, Frankfurt am Main, 8 February - 21 May 2018--colophon.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 292-304).

"Rubens: the Power of Transformation" : October 17, 2017-January 21, 2018, Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna, Austria.

"Rubens: the Power of Transformation" : February 8-May 21, 2018, Städel Museum, Frankfurt am Main, Germany.

Text in English, translated from the German.
Table of contents: title: Foreword / -- Sabine Hagg, Philipp Demandt -- Introduction.; title: The universal power of transformation  -- Stefan Weppelmann, Jochen Sander. -- Essays.; title: Rubens's special effects and the "Second creation of the world" / Stefan Weppelmann ;; title: In nova fert animus ... Rubens and the poetics of transformation  -- Aneta Georgievska-Shine ;; title: Rubens's will  -- Alejandro Vergara ;; title: Transformation and perspicuity: Rubens and the language of images  -- Nils Büttner ;; title: Rubens's aids to inventing  -- David Jaffé ;; title: Rubens and Elsheimer  -- Jochen Sander ;; title: "Rubens" and the Passion. Composition on the basis of a brainstorming session?  -- Nico Van Hout ;; title: Variations on the theme of the Goddess of Beauty  -- Gerlinde Gruber with Geert van der Snikt, Stijn Legrand and Koen Jassen ;; title: Invention and transformation: The Holy Family under the Apple Tree and other paintings of the Holy Family  -- Fiona Healy ;; title: Rubens at work with scissors and paste: the artist as creative editor  -- Jeremy Wood ;; title: Rubens's puzzle  -- George Bisacca ;; title: Rubens's Stormy Landscape -- condition assessment and restoration  -- Elke Oberthaler, Georg Prast and Ina Slama -- Catalogue.; title: The basics: copying and interpreting  -- Nils Büttner ;; title: Theory and practice of the representation of the human body  -- Gerlinde Gruber ;; title: Ancient models  -- Jochen Sander ;; title: The choreography of artistic spaces  -- Stefan Weppelmann ;; title: Seeing bodies and painting bodies  -- Stefan Weppelmann ;; title: Mirror images and naked bodies  -- Nils Büttner ;; title: Medusa -- hallmark of metamorphosis  -- Gerlinde Gruber ;; title: Material transformations -- Gerlinde Gruber with Geert van der Snikt, Stijn Legrand and Koen Janssen-- Appendix. Bibliography ; photo credits.