Figuring faith and female power in the art of Rubens / J. Vanessa Lyon.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lyon, J. Vanessa, author.

Series:

Visual and Material Culture, 1300-1700.

Visual and Material Culture, 1300-1700

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Rubens, Peter Paul, 1577-1640.

Rubens, Peter Paul.

Women in art.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (248 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Distribution:

London : Bloomsbury Publishing (UK), 2024.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, 2020.

System Details:

text file HTML

Summary:

Figuring Faith and Female Power in the Art of Rubens 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, this book 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.

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.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 20 Nov 2020).

Bibliografía e índice

ISBN:

1-003-69546-9

1-04-079717-2

90-485-6678-9

90-485-3666-9

9781003695462

OCLC:

1181773932