Peter Paul Rubens : The Drawings by Anne-Marie Logan and Michiel Plomp (2005, Hardcover)
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Peter Paul Rubens: The Drawings (Metropolitan Museum of Art Series)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherYale University Press
ISBN-100300104944
ISBN-139780300104943
eBay Product ID (ePID)30888901
Product Key Features
Book TitlePeter Paul Rubens : the Drawings
Number of Pages344 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year2005
TopicIndividual Artists / General, General
IllustratorYes
GenreArt
AuthorAnne-Marie Logan, Michiel Plomp
Book SeriesMetropolitan Museum of Art Ser.
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Weight61.7 Oz
Item Length11 in
Item Width8.5 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN2004-026839
Dewey Edition22
Dewey Decimal741.9493
SynopsisFor the Flemish artist Peter Paul Rubens (1577-1640), drawing was a fundamental activity. Ranging from delightful renderings of children and elegant portraits of noblemen and women to vigorous animal studies and beautiful landscapes, Rubens's drawings are renowned for their superb quality and variety.This exquisite book presents--in beautiful full-color reproductions--more than one hundred of the finest and most representative of Rubens's drawings, from private and public collections around the world. Essays by Anne-Marie Logan and Michiel C. Plomp provide overviews of Rubens's career as a draftsman and of the dispersal of his drawings among collectors after his death. The authors discuss the various functions of Rubens's drawings as preparatory studies for paintings, sculpture, architecture, prints, and book illustrations. The volume also includes a sampling of the artist's early anatomical studies and copies after antique sculpture as well as several sheets by other artists that Rubens retouched, restored, or reworked., For the Flemish artist Peter Paul Rubens (1577-1640), drawing was a fundamental activity. Ranging from delightful renderings of children and elegant portraits of noblemen and women to vigorous animal studies and beautiful landscapes, Rubens's drawings are renowned for their superb quality and variety. This exquisite book presents--in beautiful full-color reproductions--more than one hundred of the finest and most representative of Rubens's drawings, from private and public collections around the world. Essays by Anne-Marie Logan and Michiel C. Plomp provide overviews of Rubens's career as a draftsman and of the dispersal of his drawings among collectors after his death. The authors discuss the various functions of Rubens's drawings as preparatory studies for paintings, sculpture, architecture, prints, and book illustrations. The volume also includes a sampling of the artist's early anatomical studies and copies after antique sculpture as well as several sheets by other artists that Rubens retouched, restored, or reworked.