Aneta Georgievska-Shine is an academic and writer. A senior lecturer in the Department of Art History at the University of Maryland, she has published widely on early modern art, including the books Rubens, Velazquez, and the King of Spain (co-authored, Ashgate, 2014) and Rubens and the Archaeology of Myth (Ashgate, 2009).
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Prologue; Part 1: The Varied Faces of Love in Dutch Genre Painting; 1.1: Words into Images; 1.2: Love's Rituals: Merry Companies to Music Lessons; 1.3: Cupid's Messengers; 1.4: Hunts and Conquests; 1.5: Indecent Proposals; 1.6: The Topsy-Turvy Family; 1.7: Picturing the Good Home; Part 2: The Reappearing Cupid; 2.1: The Cupid on the Wall; 2.2: The Dissolution of Narrative; 2.3: Invitation to Listen; 2.4: Reading, Writing, and Imagining Love; 2.5: Returning the Lover's Gaze; 2.6: Metaphysical Love; 2.7: Vermeer, his Muse, and the Unfinished History; Epilogue; Bibliography