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Excerpt from Rubens His Life, His Work, and His Time, Vol. 1 of 2
Rubens is one of the greatest names in the history of art. His magnificent career, his relations with crowned heads, the events in which he played a part, and far above all these his brilliant genius and the prodigious sum of his works, all combine to give him his high place. But his very fertility and the universality of his gifts have been obstacles to a satisfactory account of his life and his works. Periods of his career, however, and different phases of his inexhaustible activity, form the subject of numerous and valuable monographs. In recent times, the researches of scholars and critics in France, in Germany, and particularly in Belgium, where Rubens has always been held in high honour, have resulted in important discoveries concerning the man and his works.
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