248 Pages
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Routledge
248 Pages
by
Routledge
248 Pages
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Routledge
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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... Read more
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.
Biography
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>.
