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    Rubens: Drawings 140 Colour Plates
    Rubens: Drawings 140 Colour Plates
    Rubens: Drawings 140 Colour Plates
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    Rubens: Drawings 140 Colour Plates

    By Maria Peitcheva

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    Rubens approached a large work in a series of stages. First, the artist would make preliminary drawings in black chalk, sometimes in combination with brown chalk. At this point he would often refer to his extensive library of copies, but the work of his forebears always underwent radical transformation at his hand. Rubens had an extraordinary ability to breathe life and movement into figures and find new rhythms in old compositional ideas. Clearly, he used these preparatory drawings as creative adventures, and many of them bear the marks of numerous changes of pose and position as the artist’s ideas evolved. He would often change from chalk to pen-and-ink, augmenting with a light bistre (brown) wash. Sometimes, the drawing is left in a very uneven condition, with some parts heavily built up while others are left more or less open.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMaria Peitcheva
    Release dateFeb 9, 2016
    ISBN9788892551770
    Rubens: Drawings 140 Colour Plates

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      Rubens - Maria Peitcheva

      Rubens: Drawings

      140 Colour Plates

      By Maria Peitcheva

      First Edition

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      Rubens: Drawings

      140 Colour Plates

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      Copyright © 2015 by Maria Peitcheva

      Foreword

      Peter Paul Rubens (1577-1640) was the most versatile and influential Baroque artist in northern Europe in the seventeenth century. Highly gifted and internationally oriented, the Flemish artist received commissions from almost all of Europe's major courts. His art blends the High Renaissance of Italy, with which he was familiar from an eight-year stay on the Italian peninsula, with northern realism. Having a phenomenal knowledge of classical antiquity, he was the prototype of the intellectual artist.

      Born in Siegen, Germany, Rubens spent most of his life in Antwerp, then in the Southern Netherlands. Archduke Albert and Archduchess Isabella, the rulers of the Southern Netherlands, employed him as their court painter and sought his assistance in diplomatic affairs. After Albert's death in 1621, Rubens became a close advisor to Isabella. His command of Dutch, Latin, Italian, German, and French was a great advantage during his diplomatic missions, which he always combined with painting.

      The majority of Rubens's drawings served as a step toward a final work of art in another medium. Rubens kept his drawings close by as studio material to be used by his assistants and collaborators. It was often with the help of his drawings that assistants would execute the related paintings; later, Rubens would merely add the finishing touches. There are indications that the artist guarded his drawings from the outside world, both because he wanted no one to witness his artistic exertions, his sweat and toil, and because the drawings were considered a kind of studio secret. How careful he was about them is clear from his last will and testament, in which he stipulated that his drawings were not to be sold until it was clear that none of his children would become an artist. Rubens himself would never have thought to present them.

      Rubens’ drawings and oil sketches played a variety of supporting roles in his work from the very beginning of his career, when he was apprenticed to Antwerp painter Adam van Noort, and later to Otto van Veen. Following the practice of the day, the young artist made numerous copies of masterworks, particularly the Northern painters Tobias Stimmer and Hans

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