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Rubens : Portraits after existing prototypes
- Title
- Rubens : Portraits after existing prototypes / by Koenraad Jonckheere.
- Author
- Jonckheere, Koenraad
- Publication
- London : Harvey Miller Publishers, [2016]
- ©2016
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Details
- Additional Authors
- Rubens, Peter Paul, 1577-1640.
- Description
- 339 pages : illustrations (some color), portraits; 27 cm.
- Summary
- Rubens was mesmerised by faces. He studied physiognomy, the pseudo-science that began making headway in the sixteenth century, which postulated that a person's character could be read from their facial features. He made geometrical analyses of the faces of ancient emperors and heroes. He invested a great deal of time in detailed anatomical studies, sometimes based on nature, and equally often on antique busts and coins. At times it seems as though the master wanted to know and understand every nook and cranny of the human face. To this end he studied man himself and the way in which the ancients dealt with nature. His best portrait copies, thus, are not strictly copies but rather studies in which art history, craftsmanship, literature and theory merge into an emulation of art and nature. They are works in which the artist was looking for what ultimately captivated him the most: man in all of his myriad facets, and the perspectives art afforded to better understand man.
- Series Statement
- Corpus Rubenianum Ludwig Burchard ; Part XIX (4)
- Uniform Title
- Corpus Rubenianum Ludwig Burchard ; pt. 19 (4)
- Alternative Title
- Portraits after existing prototypes
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Illustrated works.
- Catalogs.
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 293-309) and indexes.
- Call Number
- (C.R.) MCH R8.C82 pt. 19 (4)
- ISBN
- 9781909400580
- 1909400580
- LCCN
- 2018377819
- OCLC
- 969739678
- Author
- Jonckheere, Koenraad, author.
- Title
- Rubens : Portraits after existing prototypes / by Koenraad Jonckheere.
- Publisher
- London : Harvey Miller Publishers, [2016]
- Copyright Date
- ©2016
- Type of Content
- textstill image
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Series
- Corpus Rubenianum Ludwig Burchard ; Part XIX (4)Corpus Rubenianum Ludwig Burchard ; pt. 19 (4)
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 293-309) and indexes.
- Local Note
- Catalogues Raisonnés Collection (NYPL, Art & Architecture)
- Chronological Term
- 1600-1699
- Added Author
- Rubens, Peter Paul, 1577-1640. Paintings. Selections.
- Research Call Number
- (C.R.) MCH R8.C82 pt. 19 (4)