Heroic Deeds and Mystic Figures: A New Reading of Rubens' Life of Maria De' Medici

by Ronald Forsyth Millen and Robert Erich Wolf

No previous study of Rubens' pictorial biography of Maria de' Medici, Dowager Queen of France, has analyzed in such detail each of the twenty-four paintings with regard to iconography, the painter's source material, and his pictorial treatment. Not only is each episode seen here within its historical context, using documents from both Italian and French sources of the time, many never before adduced in connection with the paintings, but for the first...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691040656
• ISBN13: 9780691040653
• Release Date: November 1989
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 334 Pages
• Weight: 2.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 8.8" x 11.3"