RUBENS AND THE HUMAN BODY

VAN WYHE, CORDULA

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ISBN:978-2-503-57775-3
EAN:9782503577753
Editorial: BREPOLS PUBLISHERS
Fecha de la edición:2018
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Encuadernación:RUSTICA
Nº Pág.:366
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/ ARTE Y CIENCIAS SOCIALES / ARTE MODERNO: SIGLOS XIV-XVIII

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.