List of Illustrations
Acknowledgements
Prologue: Rubens’s Early Drawings and the Problem of Eclecticism
PART I: DRAWING IN CONTEXT
Chapter 1 – Setting the Stage: Privileging Eloquent Disegno in Rubens's Early Drawings
Chapter 2 – Style and Eloquence in Rubens’s Milieu
Chapter 3 – The Getty Medea and Rubens’s Making of a Modern Senecan Grande Âme
Chapter 4 – Figuring Eloquence: The Kneeling Man and Rubens’s Construction of the Robust Male Nude
Bibliography
Index of Works
Index
Biography
Catherine Lusheck (PhD, UC Berkeley), is Associate Professor of Art History at the University of San Francisco. Her research interests include Rubens drawings, and early modern humanism, style, and visual rhetoric. Her publications include "Content in Form: Rubens's Kneeling Man and the Graphic Reformation of the Ideal, Robust Male Nude," Jaarboek Koninklijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten Antwerpen (2000), and a forthcoming essay, "Leonardo’s Brambles and their Afterlife in Rubens’s Studies of Nature."
"Lusheck’s study is well informed and will provide a welcome introduction for new students of Rubens’s philosophical background."
- Historians of Netherlandish Art Reviews
"Rubens and the Eloquence of Drawing is a significant addition to the literature on Rubens and an effective model of 'a more expansive approach to drawing and its functions' (27) in early modern Europe. Lusheck’s lucid prose and the generous quantity of illustrations enable the reader to fully engage with the drawings as repositories of Rubens’s learned and complex thought."
- Renaissance Quarterly
