Ebook: Rubens

Rubens' work radiates energy and depicts a vertiginous perception of the pleasures of life. The bright colours and limitless imagination glorify the world in all its splendour. Rubens has a profound influence on subsequent painters: his heroic ideals are reflected in Antoine Watteu's chivalric scenes and the hunting scenes in Eugéne Delacroix's works; his laudable paintings of the beauty of the female form evoke Auguste Renoir's nudes.;BIOGRAPHY; NOTES; LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.