PETER PAUL RUBENS (1577-1640)

Ruben said 'My talent is such that no undertaking, however vast in size? has ever surpassed my courage.' The name of the great 17th century Flemish painter Peter Paul Rubens reminds us of the importance of his contribution to the development of European culture, and his contemporaries praised him as the 'Apelles of our day'. With a short biographical text, the body of this compact small softback are over 100 full page colour images of whole portraits and masterpieces in detail such as The Crown of Thorns (Ecce Homo), Venus and Adonis, Christ with the Adulterous Woman, Venus at a Mirror, Hippopotamus and Crocodile Hunt, Nature Adorning the Three Graces, The Rape of the Daughters of Leucippus, Virgin with a Periwinkle, Lion Hunt, The Birth of the Dauphin, Judith with the Head of Holofernes, Arrival of Prince Ferdinand (detail), Minerva Protects Pax from Mars and dozens more, each with their year of painting and where they are to be found in museums worldwide in the index. 140pp, paperback.