The Catholic Rubens
Subtitle: saints and martyrs
By: Willibald Sauerländer ; translated by David Dollenmayer
Contributors: Rubens, Peter Paul, 1577-1640; Dollenmayer, David B., translator
Publisher: Getty Research Institute
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Los Angeles, California
Language: eng
Number of pages: 311
ISBN-13: 9781606062685
Subjects: Criticism and interpretation; Christianity and art; Catholic Church
Work titles: Katholische Rubens
Description: A fresh consideration of the images of saints and martyrs Rubens created for the churches of Flanders and the Holy Roman Empire that offers a masterly demonstration of Rubens' achievements, liberating their message from the secular misunderstandings of the post-religious age and showing them in their intended light.
Notes: "Originally published in German as Willibald Sauerländer, Der Katholische Rubens: Heilige und Märtyrer (Munich: Verlag C. H. Beck, 2011)"--ECIP galley.

Includes index.