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Author Rosenthal, Lisa, 1954-

Title Gender, politics, and allegory in the art of Rubens / Lisa Rosenthal
Published Urbana-Champaign, Ill. : University of Illinois ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2006

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Description xiv, 312 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
Contents 1. Rubens, allegory, and art-historical method -- 2. The parens patriae : kingship and fatherhood -- 3. Manhood and Statehood: Rubens's construction of heroic virtue -- 4. Hercules' distaff: marriage, masculinity, and the pleasures of disempowerment -- 5. Making peace : concord, allegory, and violence -- 6. Self-portraiture and the place of paternity
Summary "Gender, Politics, and Allegory in the Art of Rubens examines the intertwined relationship between paintings of family and marriage, and of war, peace, and statehood by the Flemish master. Drawing extensively upon recent critical and gender theory, Lisa Rosenthal reshapes our view of Rubens's works and of the interpretive practices through which we engage them. Close readings offer new interpretations of canonical images while bringing into view other powerful works that are less familiar. The focus on gender enables an original way of reading visual allegory, giving it a dynamic multivalence undiscovered by traditional iconographic methods."--BOOK JACKET
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Subject Rubens, Peter Paul, 1577-1640 -- Criticism and interpretation.
Sex role in art.
Genre/Form Allegories.
LC no. 2005010514
ISBN 0521842441 hardback