Painting and politics in northern Europe : Van Eyck, Bruegel, Rubens, and their contemporaries / Margaret D. Carroll.
"Painting and Politics in Northern Europe offers a chronological account of political engagement in works by early modern Northern European painters Jan van Eyck, Pieter Bruegel the Elder, Peter Paul Rubens, and Frans Snyders. Offering fresh interpretations of canonical paintings, Margaret Carr...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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University Park, Pa. :
Pennsylvania State University Press,
[2008]
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| Summary: | "Painting and Politics in Northern Europe offers a chronological account of political engagement in works by early modern Northern European painters Jan van Eyck, Pieter Bruegel the Elder, Peter Paul Rubens, and Frans Snyders. Offering fresh interpretations of canonical paintings, Margaret Carroll illustrates how these artists registered their pictorial responses to the political events and debates of their day. In those debates, the imagery of gender and power was often intertwined. Considering a range of works, including van Eyck's Arnolfini Portrait, Bruegel's Netherlandish Proverbs, and Rubens's Life of Marie de Medicis series, Carroll examines the ways in which these Netherlandish painters seized on that imagery and creatively transformed it into the materials of art."--Jacket. |
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| Item Description: | Errata slip inserted. |
| Physical Description: | xx, 260 pages : illustrations (some colour), map ; 32 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 0271029544 9780271029542 0271029552 9780271029559 |