PETER PAUL RUBENS

The creative study of the important works of his predecessors and contemporaries occupied Peter Paul Rubens (15771640) throughout h is life and left its mark on the works he produced over a period of fifty years. The comparison of his works with sculptures from An tiquity and the Renaissance, paintings by Titian, Tintoretto and Caravaggio and prints by Raimondi and Goltzius reveals a fascinatin g view of Rubenss surprising transformation of subjects, his new presentation of familiar pictorial themes and his skilled search f or the rig...[Read more]