THE LIVES OF RUBENS

The brilliance of Peter Paul Rubens' career changed forever the perceptions of painting and painters. Here was a man whose astonishing gifts were allied to a personality so cosmopolitan, engaging, and virtuous that he could mingle as easily with kings as with fellow painters. Rubens' character and achievements fascinated his contemporaries, and these three biographies of the artist show the im pact of his life and art on three very different observers. Baglione, an Italian painter and art historian, records the remarkable success of ...[Llegir més]