Format:
366 Seiten
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Illustrationen
ISBN:
250357775X
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9782503577753
Series Statement:
The body in art
Content:
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
Language:
English
Subjects:
Art History
Keywords:
Rubens, Peter Paul 1577-1640
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Körper
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Rubens, Peter Paul 1577-1640
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Körper
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Aktdarstellung
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Aufsatzsammlung
Author information:
Rubens, Peter Paul 1577-1640
