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Heroic deeds and mystic figures : a new reading of Rubens' Life of Maria de' Medici
- Title
- Heroic deeds and mystic figures : a new reading of Rubens' Life of Maria de' Medici / Ronald Forsyth Millen and Robert Erich Wolf.
- Author
- Millen, Ronald.
- Publication
- Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, ©1989.
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Details
- Additional Authors
- Wolf, Robert Erich.
- Description
- xiv, 256 pages, 63 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations; 29 cm
- Subject
- Rubens, Peter Paul, 1577-1640
- Rubens, Peter Paul, 1577-1640 > Criticism and interpretation
- Marie de Médicis, Queen, consort of Henry IV, King of France, 1573-1642 > Portraits
- Marie de Médicis, Queen, consort of Henry IV, King of France, 1573-1642
- Rubens, Peter Paul, 1577-1640
- Maria Frankreich, Königin 1575-1642
- Rubens, Peter Paul 1577-1640
- Rubens, Pierre Paul (1577-1640)
- Rubens, Pierre Paul, 1577-1640
- Marie de Médicis, (1573-1642; reine de France) > Portraits
- Rubens, Petrus Paulus, (1577-1640) > Critique et interprétation
- Maria Frankreich, Königin, 1573-1642
- Rubens, Peter Paul
- Histories of Marie de Médicis (Rubens, Peter Paul)
- Medici-Zyklus <1622-1625>
- Malerei
- Zyklus
- Painters > Belgium > 17th century
- Genre/Form
- Portrait.
- portraits.
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Portraits.
- Note
- Includes index.
- Bibliography (note)
- Bibliography: p. 244-248.
- Contents
- Introduction: Minerva beset and the artful dodger -- The life of Maria de' Medici in outline -- Plan of the gallery -- The portraits of the Queen's parents -- The fates spin the destiny of the future Queen -- The birth of Maria de' Medici -- The education of the Princess -- The presentation of her portrait to Henri IV -- The wedding by proxy in Florence -- The disembarkation at Marseilles -- The marriage consummated in Lyons -- The birth of the Dauphin at Fontainebleau -- The consignment of the Regency -- The coronation in Saint-Denis -- The death of Henri IV and the proclamation of the Regency -- The Council of the Gods -- The regent militant: the victory at Jülich -- The exchange of the Princesses at the Spanish border -- The felicity of the Regency -- Louis XIII comes of age -- The expulsion from Paris -- The flight from Blois -- The negotiations at Angoulême -- The Queen opts for security -- The return of the mother to her son -- Time unveils the truth -- The Queen triumphant -- Appendix A: "A journey into France" -- Appendix B: Rosso Fiorentino, Boyvin and Rubens: old shapes into new.
- ISBN
- 0691040656
- 9780691040653
- LCCN
- 88039313
- OCLC
- ocm18739742
- 18739742
- SCSB-9515556
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library