Rubens And Italy
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Condition: Good. Jacket: Chipped, torn with minor damage. Page Condition: Good. Markings: ex library with usual markings, libray as places brown tape between binding and pages for further integrity (no damage noted). Binding condition: Good.
Few episodes in the history of Western art proved as transformative as Peter Paul Rubens's formative years in Italy, a journey that would forge one of the Baroque era's most celebrated masters. Michael Jaffé's Rubens and Italy presents a rigorous and absorbing account of the Flemish painter's Italian sojourn from 1600 to 1608, chronicling the profound influence that the Italian Renaissance and its masters — Titian, Caravaggio, Michelangelo — had on Rubens's developing artistic vision. Drawing on meticulous archival research and close visual analysis, Jaffé details how the young Rubens absorbed, adapted, and ultimately transcended the traditions he encountered in Mantua, Rome, and Genoa. Published by Phaidon, this scholarly yet richly illustrated volume stands as a landmark contribution to Rubens studies and the broader field of Baroque art history. Jaffé's prose is authoritative and precise, underpinned by decades of connoisseurship and original research that shed new light on questions of attribution and artistic development. For anyone seeking to understand how Italy gave Rubens the tools to become the defining genius of Northern European Baroque painting, this volume poses a question that lingers long after the final page: what remains of the student once the master has fully emerged?
Author: Michael Jaffé
Format: Hardback
Published: 1977, Phaidon · Oxford
Genre: History of arts
Condition remarks:
Condition: Good. Jacket: Chipped, torn with minor damage. Page Condition: Good. Markings: ex library with usual markings, libray as places brown tape between binding and pages for further integrity (no damage noted). Binding condition: Good.
Few episodes in the history of Western art proved as transformative as Peter Paul Rubens's formative years in Italy, a journey that would forge one of the Baroque era's most celebrated masters. Michael Jaffé's Rubens and Italy presents a rigorous and absorbing account of the Flemish painter's Italian sojourn from 1600 to 1608, chronicling the profound influence that the Italian Renaissance and its masters — Titian, Caravaggio, Michelangelo — had on Rubens's developing artistic vision. Drawing on meticulous archival research and close visual analysis, Jaffé details how the young Rubens absorbed, adapted, and ultimately transcended the traditions he encountered in Mantua, Rome, and Genoa. Published by Phaidon, this scholarly yet richly illustrated volume stands as a landmark contribution to Rubens studies and the broader field of Baroque art history. Jaffé's prose is authoritative and precise, underpinned by decades of connoisseurship and original research that shed new light on questions of attribution and artistic development. For anyone seeking to understand how Italy gave Rubens the tools to become the defining genius of Northern European Baroque painting, this volume poses a question that lingers long after the final page: what remains of the student once the master has fully emerged?