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Arnout Balis
Thinking through Rubens
Selected Studies by Arnout Balis
Elizabeth McGrath, Paul van Calster (eds)
- Pages: 176 p.
- Size:190 x 255 mm
- Illustrations:95 col.
- Language(s):English
- Publication Year:2023
- € 90,00 EXCL. VAT RETAIL PRICE
- ISBN: 978-1-915487-28-5
- Hardback
- Forthcoming (Dec/23)
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Exemplary in their originality, scope and intellectual rigour, Arnout Balis many outstanding publications, of which a selection spanning forty years of scholarship is presented here, constitute but a small part of what he contributed to the understanding of the art of Rubens and his contemporaries.
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BIO
Arnout Balis was one of the greatest connoisseurs of Peter Paul Rubens, the artist to whom he devoted his life.
Summary
Arnout Balis (1952–2021), one of the greatest Rubens authorities of his generation and beyond, stood for openness and inclusiveness in scholarship as in life. Exemplary in their originality, scope and intellectual rigour, his many outstanding publications, of which a selection spanning forty years of scholarship is presented here, constitute but a small part of what he contributed to the understanding of the art of Rubens and his contemporaries.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Thinking Through Rubens: Selected Studies by Arnout Balis
Edited by Elizabeth McGrath and Paul van Calster
Preface
Arnout Balis: A Personal Memoir by Elizabeth McGrath
1 Hippopotamus Rubenii: A Small Chapter in the History of Zoology (1981)
2 Image and Counterimage: On Dissident Rubens Biographies (1985)
3 Fables in Seventeenth-Century Flemish Painting (1985)
4 (1994)
5 Working it out: Design Tools and Procedures in Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century Flemish Art (2000)
6 Rubens and Inventio: The Contribution of his Theoretical Notebook (2001)
7 Rubens and his Studio: Defining the Problem (2007)
8 A Painting by Willem Panneels, an Intriguing Pupil of Rubens (2020)
9 Many Hands in Rubens's Workshop: an Exploration (2021)
10 A Sheet from Rubens's Theoretical Notebook (2021)
Select Bibliography of Arnout Balis
