making your city stretch towards the sky

Edited by Marion True and Jerry Podany

4 line drawings

Christine Sciacca is associate curator of European Art

Edited by Janet Burnett Grossman

Rubens: Picturing Antiquity New York making your city stretch towardsEdited by Anne T. Woollett, Davide Gasparotto, and Jeffrey Spier The first study devoted to classical arts vital creative impact on the work of the Flemish painter Peter Paul Rubens. For the great Peter Paul Rubens (15771640), the classical past afforded lifelong creative stimulus and the camaraderie of humanist friends. A formidable scholar, Rubens ingeniously transmitted the physical ideals of ancient sculptors, visualized the spectacle of imperial