Volume 17, Number 11 · December 30, 1971
Rubens and Marie
By Francis Haskell
Rubens' Life of Marie de' Medici
by Jacques Thuillier, by Jacques Foucart
Abrams, 254, 160 illustrations, 180 color plates pp., $150.00
The twenty-four pictures devoted to scenes from the life of Marie de' Medici, which Rubens painted for the Palais du Luxembourg between 1622 and 1625 and which are soon to be properly reassembled in the Louvre, are—like the earlier frescoes by Raphael and Michelangelo in the Vatican—not only great works of art in their own right, but masterpieces whose impact has been felt in painting almost ever since.
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