Rubens and His Legacy

About this book

Peter Paul Rubens (1577-1640) is undoubtedly the most influential of all Flemish painters. Himself indebted to Titian Rubens became a role model to Van Dyck Rembrandt and Velazquez and influenced artists well beyond his time including figures such as Cezanne Picasso Bacon and Freud. This sumptuous new volume explores Rubenss legacy thematically through a series of sections devoted to violence power lust compassion elegance and poetry. Each section will link artists across the centuries in their references to Rubens from Van Dyck and Watteau to Manet Daumier Renoir and Van Gogh as well as Gainsborough Constable and Turner.