Research Catalog

Title

Rubens. Mythological subjects. Hercules to Olympus / by Elizabeth McGrath, Bert Schepers, Nils Büttner, Gregory Martin, Jeremy Wood, Eveliina Juntunen, Gerlinde Gruber and Fiona Healy ; edited by Elizabeth McGrath, Bert Schepers and Brecht Vanoppen.

Author

McGrath, Elizabeth

Publication

• London ; Turnhout : Harvey Miller Publishers, [2022]
• ©2022

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Details

Additional Authors

• Schepers, Bert
• Vanoppen, Brecht

Description

2 volumes (552, 393 pages) : illustrations (some color); 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 a secular space was created in art for 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. Rubens 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. At the same time, 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 happy accident of history that these splendid paintings are now widely visible in the great museums of the world."--

Series Statement

Corpus Rubenianum Ludwig Burchard ; Part XI (2)

Uniform Title

Corpus Rubenianum Ludwig Burchard ; pt. 11 (2)

Alternative Title

• Mythological subjects. Hercules to Olympus
• Hercules to Olympus
• Mythological subjects. 2, Hercules to Olympus

Subject

• Rubens, Peter Paul, 1577-1640 > Catalogs
• Rubens, Peter Paul, 1577-1640
• Mythology, Classical, in art > Catalogs
• Mythology, Classical, in art
• Art and mythology

Genre/Form

• Catalogues raisonnés.
• Illustrated works.
• Catalogs.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (volume 2, pages 205-289) and indexes.

Contents

Volume One. Text -- Volume Two. Illustrations.

Call Number

(C.R.) MCH R8.C82 pt. 11 (2)

ISBN

• 9781912554867
• 1912554860
• 9781912554843
• 1912554844
• 9781912554850
• 1912554852

LCCN

• 9781912554867
• 9781912554843
• 9781912554850

OCLC

1366277351

Author

McGrath, Elizabeth, author, editor.

Title

Rubens. Mythological subjects. Hercules to Olympus / by Elizabeth McGrath, Bert Schepers, Nils Büttner, Gregory Martin, Jeremy Wood, Eveliina Juntunen, Gerlinde Gruber and Fiona Healy ; edited by Elizabeth McGrath, Bert Schepers and Brecht Vanoppen.

Publisher

London ; Turnhout : Harvey Miller Publishers, [2022]

Copyright Date

©2022

Type of Content

text

still image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Corpus Rubenianum Ludwig Burchard ; Part XI (2)

Corpus Rubenianum Ludwig Burchard ; pt. 11 (2)

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (volume 2, pages 205-289) and indexes.

Local Note

Catalogues Raisonnés Collection (NYPL, Art & Architecture)

Added Author

McGrath, Elizabeth, author, editor.

Schepers, Bert, editor, author.

Vanoppen, Brecht, editor.

Note

Title on jacket: Mythological subjects. 2, Hercules to Olympus

Other Standard Identifier

9781912554867

9781912554843

9781912554850

Research Call Number

(C.R.) MCH R8.C82 pt. 11 (2)