The Ceiling Paintings for the Jesuit Church in Antwerp
By (author) J.R. Martin
The thirty-nine ceiling paintings which Rubens painted in 1620-1621 for the newly-built Jesuit Church in Antwerp constituted the most extensive commission he had received up to that thime. They perished by fire in 1718, however, many of Rubens’s spirited grisaille sketches and final oil sketches for the canvas paintings have survived, and they, together with documents and with contemporary copies by other artists, allow us to reconstruct not only the iconography and compositions of the paintings, but also their style and the overall effect of the series. In this volume, the author discusses the building of the Jesuit Church and the terms of the commission given to Rubens, deals with the fire of 1718 and the work of the copyists, and gives a critical catalogue of the surviving sketches by Rubens.
- By (author) J.R. Martin
Other Titles in this Series
Portraits of Unidentified and Newly Identified Sitters Painted in Antwerp
Corpus Rubenianum Ludwig Burchard XIX.3
Volume 19.3
Corpus Rubenianum Ludwig Burchard
Copies and Adaptations from Renaissance and Later Artists: Italian Masters. Titian and North Italian Art
Corpus Rubenianum Ludwig Burchard
Copies and Adaptations from Renaissance and Later Artists: Italian Masters. Artists Working in Central Italy and France
Corpus Rubenianum Part IV
The Holy Trinity, The Life of the Virgin, Madonnas, and The Holy Family: The Holy Trinity and The Life of the Virgin
Volume 4.1
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