The age of Rubens

Directors' Preface / Alan Shestack and David W. Steadman

Curator's Preface / Peter C. Sutton.

Painting in the Age of Rubens / Peter C. Sutton. The Spanish Netherlands in the Age of Rubens / Peter C. Sutton

Essays.

Painting and the Counter Reformation in the Age of Rubens / David Freedberg. Rubens and Antiquity / Christopher White. Rubens's Atelier and History Painting in Flanders: a Review of the Evidence / Hans Vlieghe. Flemish Genre Painting: Low Life - High Life - Daily Life / Konrad Renger. The Art of "Conversatie": Genre Portraiture in the Southern Netherlands in the Seventeenth Century / Marjorie E. Wieseman. Private Collections in the Spanish Netherlands: Ownership and Display of Paintings in Domestic Interiors / Jeffrey M. Muller

Catalogue of the Exhibition: The Age of Rubens. Precursors of Rubens. Peter Paul Rubens. Anthony van Dyck. Jacob Jordaens. History Painting. Portraiture. Genre Painting. Architectural Painting. Landscape and Seascape. Flower Still Life. Still Life. Animal Painting and Hunt Scenes. Gallery Painting. Fin de Siecle.