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Politics as Painting (Hardcover)
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Apart from a handful of art historians no one has ever heard of the
Brussels painter Hendrick De Clerck (1560-1630). Nevertheless, De
Clerck was a contemporary of Peter Paul Rubens, the latter having
gone down in history as an artistic trailblazer and painting
powerhouse, while Hendrick De Clerck has quietly faded into
oblivion. Yet the subtly coded, vibrantly coloured pictures that De
Clerck painted for Archduke Albert of Austria and his wife Isabella
are political propaganda of the highest order. In creating a mode
of archducal representation that could help to gain an empire, the
sky is quite literally the limit. De Clerck represents Isabella as
wise Minerva, chaste Diana, the Virgin Mary. And that's nothing
compared to her husband, for in De Clerck's paintings Albert is
transformed into the sun god Apollo or even into Jesus Christ
himself. Hendrick De Clerck's mastery of ingenious pictorial
strategy made him a leading player in one of the most ambitious
projects history has ever seen. For those who know how to read
them, his paintings tell a story of power, political promises, and
grandiose ambition. Most of all, they are supreme examples of
image-building; for as the Archdukes were well aware, even as a
monarch you're only as important as you make yourself.
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