Catherine Lusheck (PhD, UC Berkeley), is Associate Professor of Art History at the University of San Francisco. Her research interests include Rubens drawings, and early modern humanism, style, and visual rhetoric. Her publications include "Content in Form: Rubens's Kneeling Man and the Graphic Reformation of the Ideal, Robust Male Nude," Jaarboek Koninklijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten Antwerpen (2000), and a forthcoming essay, "Leonardo’s Brambles and their Afterlife in Rubens’s Studies of Nature."

"Lusheck’s study is well informed and will provide a welcome introduction for new students of Rubens’s philosophical background."- Historians of Netherlandish Art Reviews"Rubens and the Eloquence of Drawing is a significant addition to the literature on Rubens and an effective model of 'a more expansive approach to drawing and its functions' (27) in early modern Europe. Lusheck’s lucid prose and the generous quantity of illustrations enable the reader to fully engage with the drawings as repositories of Rubens’s learned and complex thought."- Renaissance Quarterly

• List of IllustrationsAcknowledgementsPrologue: Rubens’s Early Drawings and the Problem of EclecticismPART I: DRAWING IN CONTEXTChapter 1 – Setting the Stage: Privileging Eloquent Disegno in Rubens's Early DrawingsChapter 2 – Style and Eloquence in Rubens’s Milieu PART II: CASE STUDIES IN GRAPHIC ELOQUENCE Chapter 3 – The Getty Medea and Rubens’s Making of a Modern Senecan Grande ÂmeChapter 4 – Figuring Eloquence: The Kneeling Man and Rubens’s Construction of the Robust Male NudeBibliographyIndex of WorksIndex

Catherine Lusheck (PhD, UC Berkeley), is Associate Professor of Art History at the University of San Francisco. Her research interests include Rubens drawings, and early modern humanism, style, and visual rhetoric. Her publications include "Content in Form: Rubens's Kneeling Man and the Graphic Reformation of the Ideal, Robust Male Nude," Jaarboek Koninklijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten Antwerpen (2000), and a forthcoming essay, "Leonardo’s Brambles and their Afterlife in Rubens’s Studies of Nature."

"Lusheck’s study is well informed and will provide a welcome introduction for new students of Rubens’s philosophical background."- Historians of Netherlandish Art Reviews"Rubens and the Eloquence of Drawing is a significant addition to the literature on Rubens and an effective model of 'a more expansive approach to drawing and its functions' (27) in early modern Europe. Lusheck’s lucid prose and the generous quantity of illustrations enable the reader to fully engage with the drawings as repositories of Rubens’s learned and complex thought."- Renaissance Quarterly

• List of IllustrationsAcknowledgementsPrologue: Rubens’s Early Drawings and the Problem of EclecticismPART I: DRAWING IN CONTEXTChapter 1 – Setting the Stage: Privileging Eloquent Disegno in Rubens's Early DrawingsChapter 2 – Style and Eloquence in Rubens’s Milieu PART II: CASE STUDIES IN GRAPHIC ELOQUENCE Chapter 3 – The Getty Medea and Rubens’s Making of a Modern Senecan Grande ÂmeChapter 4 – Figuring Eloquence: The Kneeling Man and Rubens’s Construction of the Robust Male NudeBibliographyIndex of WorksIndex

Catherine Lusheck (PhD, UC Berkeley), is Associate Professor of Art History at the University of San Francisco. Her research interests include Rubens drawings, and early modern humanism, style, and visual rhetoric. Her publications include "Content in Form: Rubens's Kneeling Man and the Graphic Reformation of the Ideal, Robust Male Nude," Jaarboek Koninklijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten Antwerpen (2000), and a forthcoming essay, "Leonardo’s Brambles and their Afterlife in Rubens’s Studies of Nature."

"Lusheck’s study is well informed and will provide a welcome introduction for new students of Rubens’s philosophical background."- Historians of Netherlandish Art Reviews"Rubens and the Eloquence of Drawing is a significant addition to the literature on Rubens and an effective model of 'a more expansive approach to drawing and its functions' (27) in early modern Europe. Lusheck’s lucid prose and the generous quantity of illustrations enable the reader to fully engage with the drawings as repositories of Rubens’s learned and complex thought."- Renaissance Quarterly

• List of IllustrationsAcknowledgementsPrologue: Rubens’s Early Drawings and the Problem of EclecticismPART I: DRAWING IN CONTEXTChapter 1 – Setting the Stage: Privileging Eloquent Disegno in Rubens's Early DrawingsChapter 2 – Style and Eloquence in Rubens’s Milieu PART II: CASE STUDIES IN GRAPHIC ELOQUENCE Chapter 3 – The Getty Medea and Rubens’s Making of a Modern Senecan Grande ÂmeChapter 4 – Figuring Eloquence: The Kneeling Man and Rubens’s Construction of the Robust Male NudeBibliographyIndex of WorksIndex