Author: Robert Alan Mowbray Stevenson

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2016-08-19

Total Pages: 124

ISBN-13: 9781333284114

Excerpt from Peter Paul Rubens Neither in his art nor in his life is there any real ground to reproach Rubens with conventional immorality; but against the refinement of his taste and the force of his imagination it is argued that he married two baggy women and could not forget them in his painting. These critics should remember that his tastes and his art, if not his culture, were all of a piece and natural to his temperament. In this century people condemn a man because his art is indifferent to his taste as a man; because, in a word, he loves art for art's sake yet with the same breath almost they condemn the man whose art was the expression of his life. How would meagre forms have suited that broad owing brush? To Rubens, the husband of Helen Fourment, esh was enticing in its largeness, its soft luminosity, its creamy evenness of tint, and he painted it with more sense of joy, and, as far as colour is concerned, with more insight than any other man. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works."