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 ...
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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 Eycks Arnolfini Portrait, Bruegels Netherlandish Proverbs, and Rubenss Life of Marie de Mdicis series, Carroll examines the ways in which these Netherlandish painters seized on that imagery and creatively transformed it into the materials of art.
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Publisher:
The Pennsylvania State University Press
Published:
2008
Language:
English
Alibris ID:
16621311808
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Near Fine in Very Good jacket. Hardcover with blue cloth boards in dust jacket, 2008, quarto, 260pp., illustrated in color and b&w. Book near fine with spot of soil to top corner of front board, binding tight, text clean bright and unmarked. DJ VG with three small knicks in spine, rubbing, toning, mild soil.
