Rubens: His Life and Works in 500 Images

Peter Paul Rubens was the most prolific, the most energetically vital, and the most internationally celebrated painter of the Baroque — a man who ran a studio of dozens of assistants, served as a diplomat to the courts of Europe, and somehow found time to produce one of the largest and most varied bodies of work in the history of painting: altarpieces, mythological canvases, portraits, landscapes, and scenes of such physical energy and visual richness that they remain the definitive statement of Baroque excess and Baroque pleasure. This life and works volume presents all five hundred major works. Published by Lorenz Books.