Catholic Rubens Saints and Martyrs - Saints and Martyrs

"Originally published in German as Willibald Sauerl'ander, Der Katholische Rubens: Heilige und M'artyrer (Munich: Verlag C. H. Beck, 2011)"--ECIP galley.

About the author

Willibald Sauerländer has been a professor at the University of Freiburg; a director of the Central Institute for Art History in Munich; a visiting professor at the Collège de France, Paris, Harvard University, New York University, the Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa, and the University of California, Berkeley; and was a Mellon Lecturer at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. His books include Gothic Sculpture in France, 1140-1270 (H. N. Abrams, 1973), Cathedrals and Sculpture (Pindar Press, 1999), and Romanesque Art: Problems and Monuments (Pindar Press, 2004). David Dollenmayer is a literary translator and emeritus professor of German at the Worcester Polytechnic Institute in Worcester, Massachusetts.

Summary

A fresh consideration of the images of saints and martyrs Rubens created for the churches of Flanders and the Holy Roman Empire that offers a masterly demonstration of Rubens' achievements, liberating their message from the secular misunderstandings of the post-religious age and showing them in their intended light.

Product details

• Authors: . Sauerlander, .. Sauerlander, Willibald Sauerlander, Willibald Sauerländer, Willibald Sauerleander
• Assisted by: David Dollenmayer (Translation)
• Publisher: Getty, j.paul, museum publ.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 15.04.2014
• EAN: 9781606062685
• ISBN: 978-1-60606-268-5
• No. of pages: 312
• Series: BIBLIOTHECA PAEDIATRICA REF KARGER; Getty Publications - (Yale)
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Art > Art history