Recollections of Rubens

by Jacob Burckhardt

Excerpt from Erinnerungen aus Rubens

Genres: Art History

374 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1896

About the author

Carl Jacob Christoph Burckhardt was a historian of art and culture, and an influential figure in the historiography of each field. He is known as one of the major progenitors of cultural history, albeit in a form very different from how cultural history is conceived and studied in academia today. Siegfried Giedion described Burckhardt's achievement in the following terms: "The great discoverer of the age of the Renaissance, he first showed how a period should be treated in its entirety, with regard not only for its painting, sculpture and architecture, but for the social institutions of its daily life as well." Burckhardt's best known work is The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy (1860).

Reviews

[Sophie (RedheadReading) · Rating 3 out of 5]

Interesting to get this insight into Rubens and his works, albeit quite dry.