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The Eucharist series
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ISBN: 2800501251 9782800501253 Year: 1978 Volume: 2 Publisher: Brussels : Arcade Press,

Rubens : portraits after existing prototypes
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ISBN: 0905203089 0905203577 9781909400580 1909400580 9780905203089 Year: 2016 Volume: 19/4 Publisher: London Harvey Miller Publishers

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Rubens was mesmerised by faces. He studied physiognomy, the pseudo-science that began making headway in the sixteenth century, which postulated that a person's character could be read from their facial features. He made geometrical analyses of the faces of ancient emperors and heroes. He invested a great deal of time in detailed anatomical studies, sometimes based on nature, and equally often on antique busts and coins. At times it seems as though the master wanted to know and understand every nook and cranny of the human face. To this end he studied man himself and the way in which the ancients dealt with nature. His best portrait copies, thus, are not strictly copies but rather studies in which art history, craftsmanship, literature and theory merge into an emulation of art and nature. They are works in which the artist was looking for what ultimately captivated him the most: man in all of his myriad facets, and the perspectives art afforded to better understand man.


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The costume book
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ISBN: 0905203356 9780905203355 Year: 1979 Volume: 24 Publisher: London : London ; New York, NY ; Rheine : Harvey Miller, Heyden & Son,


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Rubens : the life of Christ before the Passion : the young of Christ
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ISBN: 9781872501710 9781909400283 9781909400306 1872501710 1909400289 1909400300 Year: 2014 Volume: 5/1 Publisher: London : Harvey Miller Publishers,


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Landscapes and hunting scenes
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ISBN: 0199210276 0199210411 Year: 1982 Volume: 18/1 Publisher: London New York Oxford Miller University Press


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Rubens: copies and adaptations from renaissance and later artists : German and Netherlandish artists
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ISBN: 9781905375387 9781905375578 9781905375585 1905375387 1905375581 1905375573 Year: 2009 Volume: 26/1 Publisher: London : Miller,

Rubens subjects from history
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ISBN: 0905203690 9781905375868 1905375867 9780905203690 Year: 1997 Volume: 13/3 Publisher: London : H. Miller,

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In 1622, Rubens designed his second tapestry series, 'The Story of Constantine', for which he executed twelve oil sketches, all of which are currently preserved in public and private collections in America and Europe. Tapestries produced after the lost cartoons, which were in turn painted after the oil sketches, were woven in the tapestry factories in the faubourgs of Saint Marcel and Saint Germain in Paris. Based on new archival research and a critical examination of the literature on the Constantine series, this book firmly embeds the genesis, and iconographical and stylistic features of the set in its specific artistic, manufactural, and commercial matrix, and thus develops the first truly inclusive approach to Rubens's Story of Constantine.

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