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LEADER: 04569cam a22002894a 4500
001 2002101574
003 DLC
005 20110211082756.0
008 020131s2002 nyua b 001 0beng
010 $a 2002101574
020 $a0815412096 (cloth : alk. paper)
040 $aDLC$cDLC$dDLC
042 $apcc
043 $ae-be---
050 00 $aND673.R9$bO67 2002
082 00 $a759.9493$aB$221
100 1 $aOppenheimer, Paul.
245 10 $aRubens :$ba portrait /$cPaul Oppenheimer.
250 $a1st Cooper Square Press ed.
260 $aNew York :$bCooper Square Press,$c2002.
300 $a404 p. :$bcol. ill. ;$c24 cm.
500 $a" ... unabridged republication of the edition first published in London, England in 1999, with ... forty textual ememdations"--Verso t.p.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 355-398) and index.
505 8 $aMachine generated contents note: I. Rubens and the Question of Beauty -- 1. The True Opposites of Evil and the Demonic: Prelude -- 2. The Artist Meets the Prince -- 3. The Landscape of the Portrait -- 4. Publishers, the Word and Censorship -- 5. Musicians and the Flemish Renaissance -- 6. Painters and the Discovery of Natural Lighting -- 7. Light and Mannerism -- 8. Massys, Mor, Bruegel and the New Tradition -- 9. Poetry and Painting -- 10. History and Painting -- 11. Sizes and Theatres -- 12. Political Festivals, Masques and the Bliss of Illusion -- 13. Two Weddings and the Signs of Revolution -- 14. Family History -- 15. The Menace of the Reformation -- 16. The Profanation of Art -- 17. Philip II and the Revolt in the Netherlands -- 18. The Flight to Germany -- 19. Refuge in Cologne -- 20. Disappearance and Compassion -- 21. Release and the Tragedy of Anna von Saxon -- 22. Birth and the Months at Siegen -- 23. Beginnings in Cologne -- 24. 'The Common Calamity' -- 25. The Ongoing Violence -- 26. The Slaughter at Mons and Mechelen -- 27. The Spanish Mutiny -- 28. The Role of Don Juan -- 29. The Spanish Fury -- 30. Don Juan's Misjudgements -- 31. Artists and the War -- v -- 32. The Death of Don Juan -- 33. Alexander of Parma and the Great Betrayal -- 34. The Theatrical Soldier -- 35. Coups de grace -- 36. The Family Returns to Antwerp -- 37. Life as a Court Page -- 38. The Apprentice Years -- 39. The First Three Masterpieces -- II. The Idea of Absolute Beauty -- 40. Journey to Venice -- 41. The 'Heavenly Shew upon the Water' -- 42. The City of Virgil, Mantegna and Giulio Romano -- 43. The Wedding in Florence -- 44. Copying as Innovation -- 45. From Mantua to Rome -- 46. The Roman Experience -- 47. The New Aesthetic -- 48. The New Sensuality -- 49. The First Roman Commission -- 50. Excursions through Italy -- 51. Off to Spain -- 52. Spies and a Sea Voyage -- 53. Disaster and Ghost-Painting -- 54. The 'Poison Reason Drinks' -- 55. The Revolutionary Portrait -- 56. Mantua, Friendships and Galileo -- 57. Stock-Taking in his late Twenties -- 58. Rubens and the History of Ideas -- 59. The Second Stay in Rome -- 60. Getting Rid of 'the Smell of the Stone' -- 61. Early Fame and a Journey to Genoa -- 62. Rejection and a Summons Home -- III. Beauty Human and Superhuman -- 63. Grief and New Beginnings -- 64. 'The Hand of the Artist' -- 65. The Creation of Aliveness -- 66. The Apprehension of Beauty -- 67. The Pacts for Beauty -- 68. Studio Life -- 69. The 'Lover of Antiquities' -- 70. Jealousy, War and the Engraving Business -- IV Kings, Queens, Ministers and the Angelic -- 71. Large Works and the Atmosphere of Creation -- 72. The Medici Invitation -- 73. 'The Theme Is so Vast and so Magnificent' -- 74. Science and Art Amid the Ruins -- 75. The Triumph of Political Theatre -- 76. The English Experiment -- 77. The Artist Meets the King -- 78. Securing the Pact for Peace -- 79. A Previous Engagement -- 80. A Marriage of Politics and Art -- 81. The Fantasy of Peace and War -- V Rubens and Sensuality -- 82. Toward a New Optics -- 83. Mission Cancelled and a Second Marriage -- 84. New Life, New Beauty -- 85. Promoting War -- 86. Beauty, Evil and the Whitehall Pictures -- 87. Festivals of Love -- 88. Ferdinand's Joyous Entry -- 89. The Second Golden Apple -- 90. Living out of Town -- 91. 'The Unfortunate Europe' -- 92. Painting Beauty Bare -- 93. The Chance to Do 'Something Extraordinary' -- VI. Apotheosis: Beauty and Physics -- Beauty and Physics -- Notes -- Select Bibliography -- Index.
600 10 $aRubens, Peter Paul,$d1577-1640.
650 0 $aPainters$zBelgium$vBiography.
856 41 $3Table of contents$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/fy022/2002101574.html