Universally celebrated for his rosy and concupiscent nudes, Peter Paul Rubens (1577-1640) was an artist whose first concern was sensuality in all its forms. This Baroque master devoted himself to a lifelong celebration of the joys and wonders of the physical realm. He felt that the human body was as lovely and natural as the many natural landscapes he painted as a young man. In a lushly illustrated text, María Varshavskaya and Xenia Yegorova explore...

El arte ecléctico con el que soñaba la familia Carracci quedó finalmente plasmado en la obra de Rubens, con toda la facilidad del genio. Sin embargo, el problema era mucho más complicado para un hombre del norte, que deseaba añadir una fusión de los espíritus flamenco y latino, algo cuya dificultad se había reflejado en los intentos más bien pedantes del romanismo. Lo logró sin perder nada de su desbordante personalidad, su inquieta imaginación...

The true story of how seventeenth-century Europe's most famous painter doubled as a secret agent and negotiated a peace between superpowers.