J. Vanessa Lyon

Figuring Faith and Female Power in the Art of Rubens (eBook, PDF)

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 248
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Oktober 2025
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781040780848
• Artikelnr.: 75564063

Autorenporträt

>Word & Image>, >The Huntington Library Quarterly>, and >Art History>.

Inhaltsangabe

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.