Rubens: The Garden of Love as Conversatie a la Mode

by Elise Goodman

A comprehensive, interdisciplinary study of Rubens's painting, "Conversatie a la Mode" or "Conversatie van Joffrs". It argues that the work embodies ideas on manners, patterns of courtship and general social interaction of polite society, of which Rubens was a conscious and prominent member.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 902725334X
• ISBN13: 9789027253347
• Release Date: April 1992
• Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
• Length: 25066 Pages