Rubens: Picturing Antiquity
Davide Gasparotto, Jeffrey Spier, Anne T Woollett
Getty Publications, £30, 192 pages
This handsomely-produced book originated as a companion to an exhibition mounted at the J Paul Getty Museum, which in addition to its own impressive resources succeeded in acquiring an outstanding number of relevant paintings and drawings from the USA and elsewhere. It is, however, much more than an exhibition catalogue, for it addresses a major theme in the pictorial output – drawings and paintings – of the greatest Flemish artist of the 17th century. As such it has independent and lasting value.
