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Painting and Politics in Northern Europe:

Van Eyck, Bruegel, Rubens, and Their Contemporaries

ISBN-13: 9780271029559
Publisher: PENN STATE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Imprint: PENN STATE UNIVERSITY PRESS
By Margaret D. Carroll
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Local release date: 13/09/2008
Format: Paperback 280 pages Weight: 0g
Categories: Photography & photographs [AJ]

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Painting and Politics in Northern Europe offers a chronological account of political engagement in works by the 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. The imagery of gender and power was often intertwined with these debates. Considering a range of works, including Van Eyck’s Arnolfini Portrait, Bruegel’s Netherlandish Proverbs, and Rubens’s Life of Marie de Médicis series, Carroll examines the ways in which these Netherlandish painters seized on that imagery and creatively transformed it into the materials of art.

The narrative follows the way painters responded to the emergence of “modern” theories of politics and natural law from the classical and medieval tradition. Carroll begins by addressing paintings that identify the natural order with consensual social relations in a stable political hierarchy, then turns to paintings that stress the struggle for mastery in a perilous and unstable world. These paintings may be valued not merely as historical artifacts of a bygone era but as interventions in a cultural discourse that continues to this day.

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Acknowledgments

Introduction

1.. The Merchant’s Mirror: Jan van Eyck’s Arnolfini Portrait

2. Breaking Bonds: Marriage and Community in Bruegel’s Netherlandish Proverbs and Carnival and Lent

3. The Conceits of Empire: Bruegel’s Ice-Skating Outside St. George’s Gate in Antwerp and Tower of Babel

4. The Erotics of Absolutism: Rubens and the Mystification of Sexual Violence

5. “Womanliness as a Masquerade”: The Case of Marie de Médicis

6. The Nature of Violence: Animal Combat in the Seventeenth Century

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Bibliography

Index

“This book provides a welcome addition to scholarship on late medieval and early modern Netherlandish art–and because it is so readable, it provides a rare scholarly resource that is accessible to undergraduate students interested in the field.”

—Todd M. Richardson, HNA Newsletter and Review of Books

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Van Eyck, Bruegel, Rubens, and Their Contemporaries