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Rubens and the human body
This book is the first comprehensive investigation of the most paradigmatic aspect of Baroque visual culture: the Rubensian nude. Did contemporary audiences recognise the sensuously painted 'Rubensian body' as a particular, if not peculiar, artistic repertoire? How can we best understand s...
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| Document Type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Turnhout, Belgium
: Brepols
, [2018]
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| Series: | The body in art
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| Online Access: | Inhaltsverzeichnis |
| Author Notes: | edited by Cordula van Wyhe |
| Summary: | This book is the first comprehensive investigation of the most paradigmatic aspect of Baroque visual culture: the Rubensian nude. 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? It is hoped that these investigative questions will lead to a detailed evaluation about the paradigmatic status of the Rubensian body and whether we are justified in stressing its singularity within seventeenth-century Flemish and the broader early modern European visual culture |
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| Physical Description: | 366 Seiten Illustrationen |
| ISBN: | 250357775X 9782503577753 |
