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Rubens: A Portrait
Author(s): Paul Oppenheimer (Author)
- Publisher: Cooper Square Press
- Publication Date: 21 May 2002
- Language: English
- Print length: 450 pages
- ISBN-10: 0815412096
- ISBN-13: 9780815412090
Book Description
The most popular painter of his day, yet an artist whose reputation has fluctuated among art scholars and critics of the succeeding centuries, Peter Paul Rubens (1577-1640) is chiefly remembered today for his large canvases of sensual gardens, religious scenes, and voluptuous “Rubenesque” women. In Oppenheimer’s account of his life, Rubens emerges not only as a talented painter but also as an intellectual with a unique conception of beauty that proved very influential and ahead of his time. Oppenheimer explores Rubens’ ideas as he tells the story of his life, which included years as a diplomat, and illuminates his response to the humanism of the Renaissance in which he lived.
Editorial Reviews
Review
Oppenheimer has written a marvellous [sic] study on Rubens which pulls together a huge canvas setting the artist within his time, and it is like nothing I have read before.–Birmingham Post, (U. K.)
The author’s analyses of Ruben’s paintings are fresh and passionate, sometimes quirky.–Mary Bringle “American Book Review “
About the Author
Paul Oppenheimer, professor of Comparative Medieval Literature and English at the City College of the City University of New York and author of Infinite Desire: A Guide to Modern Guilt, lives in New York City.
