Picks and Pans Review: Rubens

UPDATED 06/06/1983 at 01:00 AM EDT • Originally published 06/06/1983 at 01:00 AM EDT

ARTS (6/8)

With his portraits of dimpled, robust beauties, the 17th-century painter Peter Paul Rubens created modern-day role models for those who believe fat can be beautiful. This special, written and narrated by TIME art critic Robert Hughes, is comprehensive and reverential. (Subsequent air date: 7/29)