Painting and Politics in Northern Europe
Subtitle: Van Eyck, Bruegel, Rubens and Their Contemporaries
Publisher: Pennsylvania State University Press
Published: December 30, 2007
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 328
ISBN-13: 9780271029542
Subjects: History of art & design styles: c 1600 to c 1800; Renaissance art; History; Art & Art Instruction; History: World; Netherlands; Collections, Catalogs, Exhibitions - General; History - General; Europe - General; European; History & Theory - General
Description: "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."--Jacket.