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Rubens and the Archaeology of Myth, 1610-1620 - Visual and Poetic Memory (Paperback)
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Rubens and the Archaeology of Myth, 1610-1620 - Visual and Poetic Memory (Paperback)
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Focusing on four Rubens paintings created between 1610 and 1620 -
Prometheus Bound, The Rape of the Daughters of Leucippus, Juno and
Argus, and The Finding of Erichthonius - this book re-examines the
artist's approach to classical mythology. These
theoretically-informed readings provide a fuller understanding of
the dynamics of Rubens's copious visual language, and can serve as
methodological templates for looking at, and reading of, many other
of his complex inventions. Even by the standards of erudition
commonly applied to Rubens's oeuvre as a whole, these four
paintings were created during a period characterized by a
particularly intense engagement on his part with questions of
artistic originality and ideal style. Furthermore, the learned
themes of these images clearly point to a rarefied audience that
could appreciate the intertextual qualities of ancient myths. Like
the artist himself, these ideal beholders cultivated a mode of
viewing steeped in classical and renaissance theories of literary
and rhetorical composition. Thus through these close readings, the
author illuminates the manner in which the rhetorical and poetic
conventions of the period, as well as the growing appreciation for
the various allegorical layers of fables, lead to a better
understanding of Rubens's pictorial archaeology of classical myths.
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