TY  - BOOK
AU  - Lyon,J.Vanessa
TI  - Figuring Faith and Female Power in the Art of Rubens
T2  - Visual and Material Culture, 1300 –1700
SN  - 9789048536665
U1  - 700.92 23
PY  - 2020///]
CY  - Amsterdam : 
PB  - Amsterdam University Press, 
KW  - Human figure in art
KW  - Women in art
KW  - Art and Material Culture
KW  - Early Modern Studies
KW  - Gender and Sexuality Studies
KW  - History, Art History, and Archaeology
KW  - Religion and Theology
KW  - ART / History / Baroque & Rococo
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Rubens, Counter Reformation, Gender, Baroque, Flemish art
N1  - 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; restricted access
N2  - 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
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1515/9789048536665?locatt=mode:legacy
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9789048536665
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9789048536665/original
ER  -