Figuring Faith and Female Power in the Art of Rubens

1. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-1-041-17927-6
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 248 Seiten, Format (B × H): 174 mm x 246 mm

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.

Zielgruppe

Academic

Autoren/Hrsg.

Lyon, J. Vanessa

Fachgebiete

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

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)

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>.