The Making of Rubens
Svetlana Alpers. Yale University Press, $29 (186pp) ISBN 978-0-300-06744-6
A re-examination of Rubens's work by one of today's leading art historians. (Jan.)
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Reviewed on: 07/22/1996
Genre: Nonfiction
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