Rubens
Subtitle: Drawings on Italy
Publisher: National Galleries of Scotland
Published: January 2003
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 96
ISBN-13: 9781903278314
Subjects: Individual artists; Painting & paintings; Italy; European; Individual Artist; Art; Art & Art Instruction
Description: "Peter Paul Rubens was one of the most inventive and prolific artists in the history of western art. After his early training in Antwerp, Rubens spent formative periods in Italy between 1600 and 1608. This book explores the ways in which Rubens studied, copied, and adapted the work of artists such as Michelangelo, Raphael and Titian. A large group of drawings by Italian artists, many of which were owned by Rubens and extensively transformed by him, are illustrated. These works show how Rubens's dialogue with Italian art went far beyond mere imitation and how his copies and adaptations attracted the attention of scholars and collectors from his lifetime onwards."--Jacket.