Author: Carroll, Margaret
Title: Painting and Politics in Northern Europe: Van Eyck, Bruegel, Rubens, and Their Contemporaries
Description: University Park, Pennsylvania State University, 2008. Hardcover. Muted blue cloth casebound book. There is a dust jacket with the title in white down a multi-colored spine. Pages: (8), ix-xx, (3), 4-260. Profusely illustrated with a healthy mix of color and black-and-white images. "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." Contents are as follows: The Merchant's Mirror: Jan van Eyck's Arnolfini Portrait -- Breaking bonds: marriage and community in Bruegel's Netherlandish Proverbs and Carnival and Lent -- The conceits of Empire: Bruegel's Ice-Skating Outside St. George's Gate in Antwerp and Tower of Babel -- The erotics of absolutism: Rubens and the mystification of sexual violence -- "Womanliness as a Masquerade": the case of Marie de Médicis -- The nature of violence: animal combat in the seventeenth century. VG/VG: Exlibrary book. Stamp on dust jacket at the base of the spine. Stamp on front free end page. Stamp on last page. Sticker on back free end page. Due date card on back pasted end page.

Keywords: European Art ; Art History ; ; General Art - European


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