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Rubens at the Metropolitan.(Critical Essay)
Rubens, I have been told, is an acquired taste. Modern-day viewers, even those with an appetite for the High Baroque, often find him rather over-the-top: the limpid eyes, the ruddy men with bulging biceps and impressive calves, the gleaming armor, the animals doing horrible things to other animals, and--most problematic, it seems, in the era of liposuction--the extra-zaftig nudes. To the dogmatically unconvinced, not even the sheer virtuosity, that made Rubens Europe's most sought-after painter of his day can redeem him. It's no good suggesting that they concentrate on the gorgeousness of paint-handling, the inventiveness of composition, or the brilliance with which Rubens ...
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