Full name: Rubens: A Portrait

Author: Paul Oppenheimer Year: 1999 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Art, Biographies Purchase/reserch links: Goodreads

The most popular painter of his day, yet an artist whose reputation has fluctuated among art scholars and critics of the succeeding centuries, Peter Paul Rubens (1577-1640) is chiefly remembered today for his large canvases of sensual gardens, religious scenes, and voluptuous "Rubenesque" women. In Oppenheimer's account of his life, Rubens emerges not only as a talented painter but also as an intellectual with a unique conception of beauty that proved very influential and ahead of his time. Oppenheimer explores Rubens' ideas as he tells the story of his life, which included years as a diplomat, and illuminates his response to the humanism of the Renaissance in which he lived. Similar books: Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand The New Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain by Betty Edwards Fearless by Eric Blehm The Wright Brothers by David McCullough The Last Lecture by Randy Pausch Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer The Hiding Place by Corrie ten Boom Elon Musk by Ashlee Vance Bonhoeffer by Eric Metaxas Leonardo Da Vinci by Walter Isaacson Truman by David McCullough 41 by George W. Bush Grateful American by Gary Sinise The Duck Commander Family by Willie Robertson Shadow Divers by Robert Kurson Einstein by Walter Isaacson Crisis of Character by Gary J. Byrne Clinton Cash by Peter Schweizer Humans of New York by Brandon Stanton