Master of Shadows: The Secret Diplomatic Career of the Painter Peter Paul Rubens by Mark Lamster

Master of Shadows: The Secret Diplomatic Career of the Painter Peter Paul Rubens

Mark Lamster

316 pages first pub 2009 (editions)

nonfiction art biography history informative slow-paced
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The true story of how seventeenth-century Europe's most famous painter doubled as a secret agent and negotiated a peace between superpowers.Peter Paul Rubens is best remembered as the Old Master with the penchant for fleshy, pink nudes whose popul...

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