RUBENS AND BRUEGHEL / A WORKING FRIENDSHIP

Truly collaborative paintings, that is, not simply mechanical but also conceptual coproductions, are rare in the history of art. Thi s gorgeously illustrated catalogue explores just such an extraordinary partnership between Antwerp's most eminent painters of the ea rly seventeenth century, Peter Paul Rubens (15771640) and Jan Brueghel the Elder (15681625). Rubens and Brueghel executed approxim ately twenty-five works together between around 1598 and Brueghel's death in 1625. Highly prized and sought after by collectors thro ughout Eur...[Leer más]