The Making of Rubens by Svetlana Alpers

The Making of Rubens by Svetlana Alpers

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Reconsiders the concensus on Rubens as a successful, prolific, and facile court painter who is dwarfed by the achievements of his near-contemporary Rembrandt. This book scrutinizes the assumptions upon which this image is built, and discovers an artist involved with ambivalence and ambiguity.

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The Making of Rubens by Svetlana Alpers

Reconsiders the concensus on Rubens as a successful, prolific, and facile court painter who is dwarfed by the achievements of his near-contemporary Rembrandt. This book scrutinizes the assumptions upon which this image is built, and discovers an artist involved with ambivalence and ambiguity.

Svetlana Alpers is a visiting scholar at New York University's Department of Fine Arts and Emerita Professor of Art History at the University of California, Berkeley. She spends half of her time in New York City and half in France.

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ISBN 13 9780300067446
ISBN 10 0300067445
Title The Making of Rubens
Author Svetlana Alpers
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Paperback
Publisher Yale University Press
Year published 1996-07-25
Number of pages 186
Cover note Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.