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It is an exhilarating task to evoke the life and personality of Rubens
.

These are the first words of Jacob Burckhardt’s
Recollections of Rubens
, one of the many touchstones of Rubens scholarship, and they are, incontrovertibly, true. For evidence of their veracity, one need only visit Kolvenierstraat, the narrow Antwerp lane just behind the painter’s reconstructed house on the Wapper. There, with a privileged view of the Rubenshuis garden, scholars, students, collectors, and curators can project themselves back into the artist’s day as they avail themselves of an entire library devoted to Rubeniana. Perhaps no artist has attracted so many gifted scholars. Rubens’s engagement with politics, his portrayal of the female body, his collecting, his business practices, his philosophical, literary, and religious ideas—these aspects of Rubens’s life and work have made him an especially fertile subject for historians of every ideological proclivity, and his immense output has left no shortage of material for analysis, discussion, and theorizing. Given the enormity of the literary production devoted to Rubens, it would be impossible for this bibliography to be in any way comprehensive. It is, instead, an overview of the works that treat centrally with his political career, and otherwise have shaped my thinking on the artist and his times. I am in particular debt to the scholars Svetlana Alpers, Frans Baudouin, Kristin Lohse Belkin, Julius Held, Elizabeth Alice Honig, Jonathan Israel, Michael Jaffé, Ruth Saunders Magurn, Jeffrey Muller, Geoffrey Parker, Max Rooses, Charles Ruelens, and Simon Schama.

Alpers, Svetlana.
The Making of Rubens
. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1995.

Ashley, Maurice.
Life in Stuart England
. New York: Putnam, 1964.

Baglione, Giovanni, Joachim von Sandrart, and Roger de Piles.
Lives of Rubens
.

Introduction by Jeremy Wood. London: Pallas Athene, 2005.

Bakhuizen van den Brink, Reiner Cornelis.
Het huwelijk van Willem van Oranje
met Anna van Saxen, historisch-kritisch onderzocht
. Amsterdam, 1853.

Baudouin, Frans.
Pietro Pauolo Rubens
. Translated by Elsie Callander. New York: Abrams, 1977.

______. “The Rubens House at Antwerp and the Château de Steen at Elewijt.”
Apollo
105 (1977): 181–88.

Belkin, Kristin Lohse.
Rubens
. London: Phaidon, 1998.

Belkin, Kristin Lohse, and Fiona Healy.
A House of Art: Rubens as Collector
. Introduction by Jeffrey M. Muller. Antwerp: Rubenshuis and Rubenianum, 2004.

Bellori, Giovanni Pietro.
The Lives of the Modern Painters, Sculptors, and Architects
. Translated by Alice Sedgwick Wohl. 1672; reprint, New York: Cambridge University Press, 2005.

Bergin, Joseph.
Cardinal Richelieu: Power and the Pursuit of Wealth
. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1990.

Blunt, Anthony. “Rubens and Architecture.”
Burlington
121 (1977): 609–21.

Braudel, Fernand.
A History of Civilizations
. Translated by Richard Mayne. London: Penguin, 1994.

Brook, Timothy.
Vermeer’s Hat: The Seventeenth Century and the Dawn of the Global
World
. New York: Bloomsbury, 2007.

Brotton, Jerry.
The Sale of the Late King’s Goods: Charles I and His Art Collection
. London: Macmillan, 2006.

Burckhardt, Jacob.
Recollections of Rubens
. London: Phaidon, 1950. Callières, François de.
The Art of Diplomacy
. Edited by H. M. A. Keens-Soper and Karl W. Schweizer. New York: Holmes & Meier, 1983.

Cammaerts, Emile.
Belgium: From the Roman Invasion to the Present Day
. London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1921.

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Rubens: Painter and Diplomat
. London: Faber and Faber, 1932.

Campbell, Caroline, and Alan Chong.
Bellini and the East
. London: National Gallery, 2005.

Carleton, Dudley.
Letters from and to Sir Dudley Carleton
. 3 vols. The Hague: Pierre Gosse Jr. and Elie Luzac fils, 1759.

Chambers, David, and Jane Martineau.
Splendours of the Gonzaga
. London: Victoria & Albert Museum, 1981.

Christiansen, Keith.
Andrea Mantegna: Padua and Mantua
. New York: Braziller, 1994.

Conant, Jennet.
The Irregulars: Roald Dahl and the British Spy Ring in Wartime

Washington
. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2008.

Coope, Rosalys.
Salomon de Brosse and the Development of the Classical Style in
French Architecture from 1565 to 1630
. University Park: Pennsylvania State University, 1972.

Cooper, Charles Henry.
Annals of Cambridge. Vol
. 3. Cambridge, U.K.: Warwick, 1845.

Corpus Rubenianum Ludwig Burchard: An Illustrated Catalogue Raisonné of the Work of Peter Paul Rubens Based on the Material Assembled by the Late Dr. Ludwig Burchard in Twenty-six parts
. Edited by the Nationaal Centrum voor de Plastische Kunsten van de XVIde en XVIIde Eeuw. Various publishers, 1968-present.

Crew, Phyllis Mack.
Calvinist Preaching and Iconoclasm in the Netherlands, 1544–1569
. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1978.

Croft-Murray, Edward. “The Landscape Background in Rubens’s
St. George and the Dragon.” Burlington
89 (1947): 90.

Cruzada Villamil, Gregorio.
Rubens, diplomático español
. Madrid: Medina y Navarra, 1874.

Donovan, Fiona.
Rubens and England
. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 2004.

Duke, Alastair.
Reformation and Revolt in the Low Countries
. London: Hambledon, 1990.

Dürer, Albrecht.
Dürer’s Record of Journeys to Venice and the Low Countries
. Edited by Roger Fry. New York: Dover, 1995.

Elliott, J. H.
The Count-Duke of Olivares: The Statesman in an Age of Decline
. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1986.

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Richelieu and Olivares
. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1991.

Evers, Hans Gerhard.
Peter Paul Rubens
. Munich: Bruckmann, 1942.

______.
Rubens und sein Werk
. Brussels: De Lage Landen, 1943.

Filipczak, Zirka Zaremba.
Picturing Art in Antwerp, 1550–1700
. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1987.

Freedberg, David.
Iconoclasm and Painting in the Revolt of the Netherlands
,
1566–1609
. New York: Garland, 1988.

Gachard, Louis Prosper.
Histoire politique et diplomatique de Pierre-Paul Rubens
. Brussels: Office de Publicité, 1877.

Gachet, Emile.
Lettres inédites de Pierre-Paul Rubens
. Brussels: Hayez, 1840. Galardi, P. Ferdinand de.
Traité politique concernant l’importance du choix exact
d’ambassadeurs habiles avec l’utilité des ligues et du rétablissement des ordres
militaires en Espagne
. Cologne: Chez Pierre de la Place, 1660.

Gardiner, Samuel Rawson.
A History of England from the Accession of James I to
the Outbreak of the Civil War, 1603–1642
. 10 vols. Reprint, New York: AMS, 1965.

______.
A History of England Under the Duke of Buckingham and Charles I
,
1624–1628
. 10 vols. London: Longmans, Green, 1875.

Geyl, Pieter.
The Netherlands in the Seventeenth Century: Part One, 1609–1648
. New York: Barnes & Noble, 1961.

______.
The Revolt of the Netherlands
. New York: Barnes & Noble, 1958.

Goetzmann, William N., and K. Geert Rouwenhorst, eds.
The Origins of Value:
The Financial Innovations that Created Modern Capital Markets
. New York: Oxford University Press, 2005.

Goldgar, Anne.
Tulipmania: Money, Honor, and Knowledge in the Dutch Golden Age
. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2007.

Grafton, Anthony.
Bring Out Your Dead: The Past as Revelation
. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2002.

______.
What Was History? The Art of History in Early Modern Europe
. Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press, 2007.

Guicciardini, Ludovico.
Belgique 1567
. Brussels: Office de Publicité, 1943.

Held, Julius S.
The Oil Sketches of Peter Paul Rubens
. 2 vols. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1980.

______. “On the Date and Function of Some Allegorical Sketches by Rubens.”
Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes
38 (1975): 218–33.

______.
Rubens and His Circle: Studies by Julius S. Held
. Edited by Anne W. Lowenthal, David Rosand, and John Walsh Jr. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1982.

______. “Rubens’s Sketch of Buckingham Rediscovered.”
Burlington
118, no. 861 (Aug. 1976): 547–51.

Honig, Elizabeth Alice.
Painting & the Market in Early Modern Antwerp
. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1998.

Huet, Leen.
De brieven van Rubens
. Amsterdam: Meulenhoff, 2006. Hughes, Anthony. “Naming the Unnamable: An Iconographical Problem in Rubens’s ‘Peace and War.’”
Burlington
122, no. 924 (March 1980): 157–66.

Huvenne, Paul.
The Rubens House, Antwerp
. Brussels: Ludion, 1990.

Isacker, Karel van, and Raymond van Uytven, eds.
Antwerp: Twelve Centuries of History and Culture
. Antwerp: Fonds Mercator, 1986.

Israel, Jonathan I.
Conflicts of Empires: Spain, the Low Countries, and the Struggle for World Supremacy, 1585–1713
. London: Hambledon, 1997.

______.
The Dutch Republic and the Hispanic World, 1606–1661
. Oxford: Clarendon, 1982.

Jaffé, Michael.
Rubens and Italy
. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1977. ____.
Rubens: Catalogo completo
. Milan: Rizzoli, 1989.

Jardine, Lisa.
The Awful End of Prince William the Silent
. London: HarperCollins, 2005.

______.
Going Dutch: How England Plundered Holland’s Glory
. New York: Harper, 2008.

______.
Worldly Goods
. London: Macmillan, 1996.

Jong, Jan de, and Bart Ramakers et al., eds.
Rubens and the Netherlands
. Zwolle, the Netherlands: Waanders, 2006.

Kett, Charles W.
Rubens
. London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, 1880.

Leapman, Michael.
Inigo: The Life of Inigo Jones, Architect of the English Renaissance
. London: Review, 2003.

Lescourret, Marie-Anne.
Rubens: A Double Life
. Chicago: Ivan R. Dee, 1993.

Lipsius, Justus.
Tvvo Bookes of Constancie
. Translated by John Stradling. Reprint, New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 1939.

Lockyer, Roger.
Buckingham: The Life and Political Career of George Villiers
. New York: Longman, 1981.

______.
The Early Stuarts: A Political History of England, 1603–1642
. New York: Longman, 1989.

Logan, Anne-Marie.
Peter Paul Rubens: The Drawings
. In collaboration with Michiel C. Plomp. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2004.

Lombaerde, Piet, ed.
The Reception of P.P. Rubens’s “Palazzi di Genova” During the 17th Century in Europe: Questions and
Problems. Turnhout, Belgium: Brepols, 2002.

Machiavelli, Niccolò.
The Chief Works and Others
. Translated by Allan Gilbert. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 1965.

Magurn, Ruth Saunders, ed. and trans.
The Letters of Peter Paul Rubens
. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1955.

Mattingly, Garrett.
The Armada
. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1959.

______.
Renaissance Diplomacy
. London: Cape, 1955.

Mauclère, Jean.
Rubens: Diplomate et grand seigneur
. Paris: Colbert, 1943.

McGrath, Elizabeth. “The Painted Decoration of Rubens’s House.”
Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes
41 (1978): 245–77.

Millar, Oliver.
The Age of Charles I: Painting in England, 1620–1649
. London: Tate Gallery, 1972.

______. “The Whitehall Ceiling.”
Burlington
98 (1970): 258–65.

Miller, Peter.
Peiresc’s Europe: Learning and Virtue in the Seventeenth Century
. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 2000.

Montaigne, Michel de.
The Complete Essays of Montaigne
. Translated by Donald Frame. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 1957.

Morford, Mark.
Stoics and Neostoics: Rubens and the Circle of Lipsius
. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1991.

Muller, Jeffrey M. “The Perseus and Andromeda on Rubens’s House.”
Art Bulletin
59 (Dec. 1977): 131–46.

______.
Rubens as Collector
. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1989.

______. “Rubens’s Museum of Antique Sculpture: An Introduction.”
Art Bulletin
59, no. 4 (1977): 571–82.