Artist: Rubens, Peter Paul (1577 -1640)
- Item Title:
- The Ceiling Paintings for the Jesuit Church in Antwerp.
- Author:
- Martin, John Rupert
- ISBN:
- 0714813427
- Item Number:
- Part I
- Imprint:
- London, New York : Phaidon, 1968.
- Language:
- English
- Size:
- 27 cm
- Pages:
- xvii, 340
- Illustrations:
- 231 b&w
- Concordance:
- No
- Bibliography:
- Yes
- Index:
- Yes
- Exhibition List:
- No
- Chronology:
- No
- Content Note:
- The catalogue includes Rubens' drawings and sketches for his ceiling paintings for the Jesuit Church in Antwerp, which were destroyed in a fire in 1718. The publication also lists drawings by other artists after the lost paintings and Rubens' original oil sketches.
Entries cite title, date, provenance, exhibition history, references, extensive comments with information on the original lost paintings for which the sketches were made.
- Individual Entries Contain:
- Provenance; Exhib. Hist; Bibliog.; Comments
- Public Note:
- The publication includes introductory essays on the construction of the Jesuit Church; the fire of 1718 and the work of the copyists; a description of the cycle; and a discussion of the iconography of the ceiling program. The Appendices contain the contract between Rubens and the head of the Jesuit Church for the ceiling painting, and extracts from the Jesuit Church's account book.
This volume is available in its entirety as a downloadable PDF at the Corpus Rubenianum Website (see full text link below).
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