Abstract

Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Prologue: Rubens's Early Drawings and the Problem of Eclecticism -- PART I Drawing in Context -- 1 Setting the Stage: Privileging Eloquent Disegno in Rubens's Early Drawings -- 2 Style and Eloquence in Rubens's Milieu -- PART II Case Studies in Graphic Eloquence -- 3 The Getty Medea and Rubens's Making of a Modern Senecan Grande Âme -- 4 Figuring Eloquence: The Kneeling Man and Rubens's Construction of the Robust Male Nude -- Bibliography -- Index of Works -- Index.