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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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Autres auteurs: Wyhe, Cordula van (Éditeur intellectuel, HerausgeberIn)
Rubens, Peter Paul (Illustrateur, IllustratorIn)
Format: Livre
Langue:English
Publié: Turnhout, Belgium : Brepols , [2018]
Collection:The body in art
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Accès en ligne:Inhaltsverzeichnis
Notes sur l'auteur:edited by Cordula van Wyhe
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Résumé: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
Description matérielle:366 Seiten Illustrationen
ISBN:250357775X
9782503577753