Gerlinde Gruber Libri

Peter Paul Rubens (1577–1640) is undoubtedly the most influen­tial of all Flemish painters. Himself indebted to Titian, Rubens became a role model to Van Dyck, Rembrandt, and Velázquez, and influenced artists well beyond his time, including figures such as Cézanne, Picasso, Bacon, and Freud. This sumptuous new volume explores Rubens’s legacy thematically, through a series of sections devoted to violence, power, lust, compassion, elegance, and poetry. Each section will link artists across the centuries in their references to Rubens, from Van Dyck and Watteau to Manet, Daumier, Renoir, and Van Gogh, as well as Gainsborough, Constable, and Turner.

"Die Wiener Gewitterlandschaft mit Jupiter, Merkur, Philemon und Baucis gehört zu Peter Paul Rubens{u2019} größten und dramatischsten Landschaftsbildern. Ausgehend von den tiefgreifenden Erkenntnissen der jüngsten Restaurierung gibt der Band einen umfassenden Einblick in den Entstehungsprozess dieses faszinierenden Bildes wie auch in seine kunsthistorische Deutung."-- Page 4 of cover