Figuring Faith and Female Power in the Art of Rubens / / J. Vanessa Lyon.
This book argues that the Baroque painter, propagandist, and diplomat, Peter Paul Rubens, was not only aware of rapidly shifting religious and cultural attitudes toward women, but actively engaged in shaping them. Today, Rubens's paintings continue to be used-and abused-to prescribe and proscri...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Amsterdam University Press Complete eBook-Package 2020 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Amsterdam : : Amsterdam University Press, , [2020] ©2020 |
| Year of Publication: | 2020 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Visual and Material Culture, 1300 –1700 ;
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (256 p.) :; 20 color plates, 70 halftones |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Table of Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Acknowledgements
- Prologue
- Introduction
- 1. Samson and Dilemma: Rubens Confronts the Woman on Top
- 2. Making Assumptions: Marian Tropes after Italy
- 3. Maria de’ Medici and Isabel Clara Eugenia
- 4. Peace Embraces Plenty: Queering Female Virtue at Whitehall
- 5. All That Depends on Color: Feminizing Rubens in the Seventeenth Century
- Epilogue
- About the Author
- Index