书 名：Rubens Picturing Antiquity/鲁本斯：描绘古代

作 者：Anne T. Woollett
出 版：Yale University Press，2021年
装 帧：精装 ,  192页

语 种：英语

尺 寸：22.8*27.9 cm

本书是第一部专门研究古典艺术对弗兰德斯画家彼得·保罗·鲁本斯创造力产生重要影响的专著。

对于伟大的彼得·保罗·鲁本斯而言，古典文化带来了终身的创作灵感和同人文主义挚友的情谊。

作为一名出色的学者，鲁本斯巧妙地传播了古代雕塑家的身体理想，直观地展示了皇室场合的壮观景象，渲染了神话故事的复杂性，并在其素描、绘画和挂毯设计中刻画出诸神与众英雄的性格。他对古代的热情深深地影响了其艺术和生活的各个方面。

本书通过对关键主题的思考，阐述了鲁本斯对古代艺术和文学的非凡知识所产生的创造性影响。

书中的解释性文章生动探讨了古典文化的出处和巴洛克表达方式之间在形式和主题上的关系：新斯多葛学派的意义，精致的宝石雕刻提供的构图和图像灵感，鲁本斯对古罗马大理石雕塑的研究，以及他将古典来源创造性地转化为新主题，使其充满活力的绘画风格变得生动逼真。

The first study devoted to classical art’s vital creative impact on the work of the Flemish painter Peter Paul Rubens.

For the great Peter Paul Rubens (1577–1640), the classical past afforded lifelong creative stimulus and the camaraderie of humanist friends. A formidable scholar, Rubens ingeniously transmitted the physical ideals of ancient sculptors, visualized the spectacle of imperial occasions, rendered the intricacies of mythological tales, and delineated the character of gods and heroes in his drawings, paintings, and designs for tapestries. His passion for antiquity profoundly informed every aspect of his art and life.

Including 170 color illustrations, this volume addresses the creative impact of Rubens’s remarkable knowledge of the art and literature of antiquity through the consideration of key themes. The book’s lively interpretive essays explore the formal and thematic relationships between ancient sources and Baroque expressions: the significance of neo-Stoic philosophy, the compositional and iconographic inspiration provided by exquisite carved gems, Rubens’s study of Roman marble sculpture, and his inventive translation of ancient sources into new subjects made vivid by his dynamic painting style.