Figuring Faith and Female Power in the Art of Rubens (Hardcover, 0)

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.

General

Imprint:	Amsterdam University Press
Country of origin:	Netherlands
Series:	Visual and Material Culture, 1300-1700
Release date:	July 2020
Authors:	J Vanessa Lyon
Dimensions:	240 x 170 x 19mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover - Cloth over boards
Pages:	256
Edition:	0
ISBN-13:	978-9462985513
Categories:	Books > Arts & Architecture > History of art / art & design styles > 1600 to 1800 > Baroque art Promotions
LSN:	9462985510
Barcode:	9789462985513

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