Rubens and the Eloquence of Drawing

This book demonstrates the roles that Senecan eclecticism and a classicizing approach to emulation played in Rubens's joining of form to matter in his formative drawings practice, and arguably in his early ambitions to strengthen art for a new and troubled age.

List of contents

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgements
Prologue: Rubens’s Early Drawings and the Problem of Eclecticism
PART I: DRAWING IN CONTEXT
Chapter 1 – Setting the Stage: Privileging Eloquent Disegno in Rubens's Early Drawings
Chapter 2 – Style and Eloquence in Rubens’s Milieu
PART II: CASE STUDIES IN GRAPHIC ELOQUENCE
Chapter 3 – The Getty Medea and Rubens’s Making of a Modern Senecan Grande Âme
Chapter 4 – Figuring Eloquence: The Kneeling Man and Rubens’s Construction of the Robust Male Nude
Bibliography
Index of Works
Index

About the author

Catherine Lusheck (PhD, UC Berkeley), is Associate Professor of Art History at the University of San Francisco. Her research interests include Rubens drawings, and early modern humanism, style, and visual rhetoric. Her publications include "Content in Form: Rubens's Kneeling Man and the Graphic Reformation of the Ideal, Robust Male Nude," Jaarboek Koninklijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten Antwerpen (2000), and a forthcoming essay, "Leonardo’s Brambles and their Afterlife in Rubens’s Studies of Nature."

Summary

This book demonstrates the roles that Senecan eclecticism and a classicizing approach to emulation played in Rubens’s joining of form to matter in his formative drawings practice, and arguably in his early ambitions to strengthen art for a new and troubled age.

Additional text

"Lusheck’s study is well informed and will provide a welcome introduction for new students of Rubens’s philosophical background."
-Historians of Netherlandish Art Reviews

Product details

• Authors: Catherine H Lusheck, Catherine H. Lusheck
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 07.08.2017
• EAN: 9781472477125
• ISBN: 978-1-4724-7712-5
• No. of pages: 312
• Series: Visual Culture in Early Modernity; Visual Culture in Early Modernity
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Miscellaneous; European History, ART / Individual Artists / General, HISTORY / Europe / General, ART / General, ART / History / General, ART / Techniques / Drawing, ART / European, ART / Individual Artists / Monographs, History of Art, Drawing & drawings, Art & design styles: Baroque, Individual artists, art monographs, History and Archaeology, The Arts: art forms, Medieval Western philosophy, The arts: general topics, ART / History / European / Baroque & Rococo