Anthony Van Dyck: A Life

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xii, 435 pp. This superb new biography provides the fullest narrative of Van Dyck's life and personality to appear in English. Commonly pigeonholed as a follower of Rubens or as th e court painter of the Stuarts, Van Dyck here appears not only as a remarkably individual portraitist but as a fully rounded baroque artist of memorable power. Robin Blake brings together discoveries about Van Dyck's life and work that have emerged over the past decade, and treats famous and less familiar works as informative sources for the painter's story. Show more