Peter Paul Rubens, the most celebrated of all Flemish painters, is renowned for his virtuosity in painting a wide variety of subjects. This beautiful book focuses on the artist's landscapes, in particular the National Gallery of London's treasured Landscape with Het Steen, a painting of Rubens's own country house and the surrounding countryside.Christopher Brown sets Rubens's landscapes in the tradition of Flemish landscape painting, showing especially the relationship of Rubens's work to that of Pieter Braegel the Elder. The author then looks at Rubens's early landscapes and how they were made, at Landscape with Hot Steen and the artist's life as a country gentleman, and at Rubens's later pastoral landscapes and how their mood was influenced by classical literature. Comparing Rubens's working methods with contemporary landscape practice, the author describes the construction, preparation, and grounding of the panels Rubens used.
- ISBN10 0300069472
- ISBN13 9780300069471
- Publish Date 31 January 1997
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 11 December 2009
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Yale University Press
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 128
- Language English