Peter Paul Rubens and 17th Century Book Arts
Specialists on 17th century books and book arts may enjoy viewing Maureen E. Mulvihill's illustrated exhibition review of the Rubens show at the Ringling Museum, Sarasota, Florida (February 17th-June 3rd, 2012). The review (12 pp, with a Gallery of Images from the installation) is published in Seventeenth-Century News (Spring-Summer, 2012). The Ringling's permanent collection includes five Rubens canvases (the Louvre, two). The show presents selections from Ringling's Rubens collection and many fine prints of the master's work (engravings, woodcuts) on loan from the Royal Museum of Fine Art, Antwerp
Specialists on 17th century books and book arts may enjoy viewing Maureen E. Mulvihill's illustrated exhibition review of the Rubens show at the Ringling Museum, Sarasota, Florida (February 17th-June 3rd, 2012). The review (12 pp, with a Gallery of Images from the installation) is published in Seventeenth-Century News (Spring-Summer, 2012). The Ringling's permanent collection includes five Rubens canvases (the Louvre, two). The show presents selections from Ringling's Rubens collection and many fine prints of the master's work (engravings, woodcuts) on loan from the Royal Museum of Fine Art, Antwerp.
In addition to the show's spectacular installation (4 large galleries) and its creative multimedia approach (visual art, printed books, electronic exhibit, original 'didactic' constructions), the show wisely brings attention to the painter's successful collaboration with book publishers in seventeenth-century Holland, most especially the Plantin Press at Antwerp, for which Rubens produced frontispieces, ornate title-pages, printers' devices, and other book arts. (Dr Mulvihill's essay includes embedded links on these subjects.) Likewise, the show highlights Rubens's (prescient) advocacy of intellectual property rights: he established a copyright for prints of his paintings which circulated in Holland, England, France, and Spain.
Here's the direct link to Mulvihill's Rubens:
>>> Peter Paul Rubens and 17th Century Book Arts
In addition to the show's spectacular installation (4 large galleries) and its creative multimedia approach (visual art, printed books, electronic exhibit, original 'didactic' constructions), the show wisely brings attention to the painter's successful collaboration with book publishers in seventeenth-century Holland, most especially the Plantin Press at Antwerp, for which Rubens produced frontispieces, ornate title-pages, printers' devices, and other book arts. (Dr Mulvihill's essay includes embedded links on these subjects.) Likewise, the show highlights Rubens's (prescient) advocacy of intellectual property rights: he established a copyright for prints of his paintings which circulated in Holland, England, France, and Spain.
Here's the direct link to Mulvihill's Rubens:
>>> Peter Paul Rubens and 17th Century Book Arts