This book describing Life and Work of Peter Paul Rubens and the Collections of the Russian Museums, is illustrated throughout with color and black-and-white photographs. Ruben's work radiates energy, expressing a heady sense of life's pleasures. His brilliant colors and inexhaustible imagination glorify the world in its entire splendor. Some of the special features that enliven this book are: Photographs of collections from Russian museums Comments on the Rubens work featured Biography of the artist. Rubens exercised a powerful influence on later painters: his heroic skills are echoed in the scenes galantes of Antoine Watteau and his hunting scenes in the work of Eugene Delacroix, while his paintings hymning opulent beauty of the female figure lead in the direct line to the nudes of Auguste Renoir.