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Rubens and the human body

Title
Rubens and the human body / edited by Cordula van Whye ; [introduction, Cordula van Whye ; contributors, Jacques Bos [and fourteen others]].
Publication
  • Turnhout, Belgium : Brepols Publishers n.v., [2018]
  • ©2018

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Additional Authors
  • Rubens, Peter Paul, 1577-1640
  • Whye, Cordula van
  • Bos, Jacques, 1971-
Description
366 pages : illustrations (chiefly color); 28 cm.
Summary
"Did contemporary audiences recognise the sensuously painted 'Rubensian body' as a particular, if not peculiar, artistic repertoire? How can we best understand seventeenth-century practises of reading and viewing the Rubensian body? Can our criteria for eroticism be linked with that of Rubens? Was the body a fluid category for Rubens and where does the boundary of the human body lie? Through these investigative questions, this volume will lead to a detailed evaluation about the paradigmatic status of the Rubensian body and will question whether we are justified in stressing its singularity within seventeenth-century Flemish and the broader early modern European visual culture"--Back cover.
Series Statement
The body in art
Uniform Title
Body in art.
Subjects
Genre/Form
  • Criticism, interpretation, etc.
  • Biographies.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Introduction: Getting under the skin of the imaged body / Cordula van Wyhe -- Stone to flesh : Rubens' Treatise De Imitatione Statuarum / Andreas Thielemann -- Painting human flesh : Rubens' theory compared to Jacob Jordaens' practice / Anne Haack Christensen and Jørgen Wadum -- Size matters! : On the importance and significance of life-size figures in Rubens' paintings / Joost Vander Auwera -- Rubens' victims : images of the assaulted male body / Suzanne J. Walker -- Nursing paint : on Rubens, facture, and breast milk / Margit Thøfner -- Vibrant veils and daring draperies : on Rubens' clothing of nymphs and goddesses / Karolien de Clippel -- Rubens and early modern psychology / Jacques Bos -- 'On feet made unsteady by age and wine' : Rubens' Silenus and human aging / Lucy Davis -- Rubens and early modern dietetics / Katerina Georgoulia -- Black bodies and Dionysiac revels : Rubens' Bacchic Ethiopians / Elizabeth McGrath -- 'Boistrous druncken headed imaginary gods' : the Bacchic bodies of Rubens and Jordaens / Irene Schaudies -- Afterword / Joanna Woodall.
Call Number
JQF 20-875
ISBN
  • 9782503577753
  • 250357775X
OCLC
1043670171
Title
Rubens and the human body / edited by Cordula van Whye ; [introduction, Cordula van Whye ; contributors, Jacques Bos [and fourteen others]].
Publisher
Turnhout, Belgium : Brepols Publishers n.v., [2018]
Copyright Date
©2018
Type of Content
text
still image
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Series
The body in art
Body in art.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Chronological Term
1600-1699
Added Author
Rubens, Peter Paul, 1577-1640, artist.
Whye, Cordula van, editor, writer of introduction.
Bos, Jacques, 1971- contributor.
Research Call Number
JQF 20-875
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