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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Sir Peter Paul Rubens, one of the five grand masters of 17th century painting-the others, by general consent, being Caravaggio, Rembrandt, Velasquez and Poussin-was born 400 years ago this summer, on June 28, 1577. This birthday has raised memorial exhibitions all over Europe. No anniversary of a comparably...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Rubens: 'Fed upon Roses' | 8/1/1977 | See Source »

Painter-Diplomat. Fame, money and beautiful lovers-such, Freud tells us, are the chief goals of an artist's life. No painter ever achieved them more fully than Rubens. In a Europe riven by religious and political conflicts, he was one of the first true cosmopolitans: he was both...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Rubens: 'Fed upon Roses' | 8/1/1977 | See Source »

Such ambitions presupposed a very grand rhetoric, which Rubens based squarely on his study of classical art. As a young man in Rome, he made a sketch of every antique marble he could lay eyes on. His vast correspondence shows that he had read and memorized work by almost every...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Rubens: 'Fed upon Roses' | 8/1/1977 | See Source »

Rubens never forgot the lesson of Venetian art: with every object, from a wineglass to a woman's belly, brought to its fullest luster as substance, "luxury" meant completeness of being. There is something quite transcendental about Rubens' incessant delight in the material world. Every dimple or blush...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Rubens: 'Fed upon Roses' | 8/1/1977 | See Source »

The Ocean Parks, the monumental series of paintings Diebenkorn began in 1967 and named after the Los Angeles suburb where he now lives, have attracted their share of hyperbole. One New York critic likened them to both Rubens' Marie de Medici cycle in the Louvre and Mantegna's...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: California in Eupeptic Color | 6/27/1977 | See Source »

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