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Figuring Faith and Female Power in the Art of Rubens / J. Vanessa Lyon.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Visual and Material Culture, 1300 –1700 ; 23Publisher: Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, [2020]Copyright date: ©2020Description: 1 online resource (256 p.) : 20 color plates, 70 halftonesContent type:
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  • 9789048536665
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 700.92 23
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  • online - DeGruyter
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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
Summary: 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 proscribe certain forms of femininity. Repositioning some of the artist's best-known works within seventeenth-century Catholic theology and female court culture provides a feminist corrective to a body of art historical scholarship in which studies of gender and religion are often mutually exclusive. Moving chronologically through Rubens's lengthy career, the author shows that, in relation to the powerful women in his life, Rubens figured the female form as a transhistorical carrier of meaning whose devotional and rhetorical efficacy was heightened rather than diminished by notions of female difference and particularity.
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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

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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 proscribe certain forms of femininity. Repositioning some of the artist's best-known works within seventeenth-century Catholic theology and female court culture provides a feminist corrective to a body of art historical scholarship in which studies of gender and religion are often mutually exclusive. Moving chronologically through Rubens's lengthy career, the author shows that, in relation to the powerful women in his life, Rubens figured the female form as a transhistorical carrier of meaning whose devotional and rhetorical efficacy was heightened rather than diminished by notions of female difference and particularity.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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