Figuring Faith and Female Power in the Art of Rubens

Erscheinungsjahr 2020
ISBN: 978-94-6298-551-3
Verlag: Amsterdam University Press

Buch, Englisch, Band 23, 256 Seiten, Format (B × H): 176 mm x 246 mm, Gewicht: 773 g

Reihe: Visual and Material Culture, 1300-1700

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Lyon, J Vanessa

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunst, allgemein Einzelne Künstler: Biographien, Monografien
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunstgeschichte Kunstgeschichte: Barock, Klassizismus
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction

Prologue

Chapter One. Samson and Dilemma: Rubens Confronts the Woman on Top

Chapter Two. Making Assumptions: Marian Tropes After Italy

Chapter Three

-Part One. Recycling Sovereignty: Maria de' Medici

-Part Two. Figuring Faith and Female Power: Isabel Clara Eugenia

Chapter Four. Peace Embraces Plenty: Queering Female Virtue at Whitehall

Chapter Five. Feminizing Rubens in the Seventeenth Century

Epilogue

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Lyon, J Vanessa
J. Vanessa Lyon, who received her PhD from the University of California at Berkeley, is Associate Professor of Art History at Bennington College. Her essays concerning early modern British and Flemish art and religion have appeared in Word & Image, The Huntington Library Quarterly, and Art History.