Rubens and the Human Body

By Cordula Van Wyhe

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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 250357775X
• ISBN13: 9782503577753
• Release Date: June 2018
• Publisher: Brepols Publishers
• Length: 366 Pages
• Weight: 3.43 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 8.6" x 11.0"