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Rubens : Copies and Adaptations from Renaissance and Later Artists. Italian Artists, I (Hardcover)
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Rubens : Copies and Adaptations from Renaissance and Later Artists. Italian Artists, I (Hardcover)
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This section of the Corpus Rubenianum is concerned with Rubens's
remarkable study of Italian sixteenth-century art as shown through
his numerous copies and adaptations. Rubens's study of the
Cinquecento lasted throughout his life and was not just the focus
of his early years in Antwerp when he learned his craft. At that
time he used secondary copies as models for pen drawings or as a
basis for enlarged painted adaptations such as his famous version
in Dresden after Michelangelo's Leda. Rubens's most important
full-size painted copies, however, were made as late as 1628-30
when he had travelled to Madrid and London and was in his fifties,
a point when many artists would have thought they no longer needed
to study. He may have made these copies because he could not buy
the originals for his collection, but the act of creating such
detailed visual records shows how attentive he was to the art of
the past. This process culminated in his large and very free
adaptations of the 1630s, now in Stockholm, after Titian's Andrians
and Worship of Venus, which are among the most famous copies in the
history of art. Rubens made relatively few drawings from paintings
while in Italy between 1600 and 1608, although some survive after
frescoes by Pordenone that he saw in Treviso and there are also a
number that record Michelangelo's paintings in the Sistine Chapel
in Rome. Most of the catalogue entries, however, discuss the
Italian copy drawings that Rubens bought during his travels and
brought home to Antwerp. It will be argued that these sheets were
taken out and retouched by him throughout his career. In total,
this material amounts to one of the largest collections of graphic
art assembled by a late Renaissance painter, and as a result it
reveals Rubens's sophisticated and complex dialogue with Italian
art.
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