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Rubens : mythological subjects.
- Title
- Rubens : mythological subjects. Achilles to the Graces / by Elizabeth McGrath, Gregory Martin, Fiona Healy, Bert Schepers, Cal van de Velde and Karolien de Clippel.
- Author
- McGrath, Elizabeth
- Publication
- London : Harvey Miller Publishers, [2016]
- ©2016
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | v. 2 | Text | Use in library | (C.R.) MCH R8.C82 pt. 11 (1) v. 2 | Schwarzman Building - Art & Architecture Room 300 |
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | v. 1 | Text | Use in library | (C.R.) MCH R8.C82 pt. 11 (1) v. 1 | Schwarzman Building - Art & Architecture Room 300 |
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- Description
- 2 volumes (469, 470 pages) : illustrations; 27 cm
- Summary
- One remarkable feature of European culture as it developed in the Renaissance was the accommodation it made with ancient paganism. The classical gods and their legends were allegorised, transformed into symbolic figures or emblematic scenes that might accord with Christian morality. At the same time there emerged a new, secular, genre of art devoted to the depiction of the most popular myths, above all the love stories recounted by the ancient poets. These stories were not only attractive in themselves; they offered the opportunity to depict nude figures in narrative action, which the example of antiquity held forth as the highest goal for painting. 00Rubens was one of the greatest creators of classical allegory; he was also a supreme interpreter of the classical stories. No painter was so at home in the literature of the Greeks and Romans. When he painted for pleasure, which, increasingly in the course of his life, he felt able to do, he used pagan myth to express and celebrate themes of love, beauty and the creative forces of nature, often in wonderfully idiosyncratic ways. Still, as a Christian committed to the ideals of the Catholic Reformation, Rubens respected the restrictions generally placed on the depiction of pagan tales. Most of his mythological paintings were made for private settings, for display within houses (including his own) or in the galleries of princes, noblemen and prelates. It is a happy accident of history that so many of these splendid paintings are now widely visible in the great museums of the world.
- Series Statement
- Corpus Rubenianum Ludwig Burchard ; pt. XI (1)
- Uniform Title
- Corpus Rubenianum Ludwig Burchard ; pt. 11 (1)
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Catalogs.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Call Number
- (C.R.) MCH R8.C82 pt. 11 (1)
- ISBN
- 9780905203676 (set)
- 0905203674 (set)
- 9781909400474 (vol. 1)
- 1909400475 (vol. 1)
- 9781909400467 (vol. 2)
- 1909400467 (vol. 2)
- OCLC
- 953098498
- Author
- McGrath, Elizabeth, author.
- Title
- Rubens : mythological subjects. Achilles to the Graces / by Elizabeth McGrath, Gregory Martin, Fiona Healy, Bert Schepers, Cal van de Velde and Karolien de Clippel.
- Publisher
- London : Harvey Miller Publishers, [2016]
- Copyright Date
- ©2016
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Series
- Corpus Rubenianum Ludwig Burchard ; pt. XI (1)Corpus Rubenianum Ludwig Burchard ; pt. 11 (1)
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Local Note
- Catalogues Raisonnés Collection (NYPL, Art & Architecture).
- Research Call Number
- (C.R.) MCH R8.C82 pt. 11 (1)