Figuring Faith and Female Power in the Art of Rubens
Series: Visual and Material Culture, 1300-1700;
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Product details:
- Edition number 1
- Publisher Routledge
- Date of Publication 1 December 2025
- ISBN 9781041179276
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages248 pages
- Size 246x174 mm
- Language English 700
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Short description:
This book 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
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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 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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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.
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