Figuring Faith and Female Power in the Art of Rubens

by J. Vanessa Lyon

Figuring Faith and Female Power in the Art of Rubens argues that the Baroque painter, propagandist, and diplomat, Peter Paul Rubens, was not only aware of rapidly shifting religious and cultural attitudes toward women, but actively engaged in shaping them. Today, Rubens's paintings continue to be used -- and abused -- to prescribe and proscribe certain forms of femininity. Repositioning some of the artist's best-known works within seventeenth-century...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9462985510
• ISBN13: 9789462985513
• Release Date: July 2020
• Publisher: Amsterdam University Press
• Length: 256 Pages