POWER AND GRACE

Power and Grace demonstrates the crucial but very diff erent roles played by drawings in oeuvres of Rubens, Van Dyck, and Jordaens, and highlights the distinctive features of their graphic styles and the impact they had on each other.In 1621, Peter Paul Rubens (15 77-1640) wrote a letter to William Trumbull, the English diplomat and political agent to King James I, in which he described a large painting of a lion hunt that he had just completed: As you rightly observe, such things have more grace and power in a large pictur e than in...[Read more]