Overview

""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' ""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.

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Author:   Margaret D. Carroll
Publisher:   Pennsylvania State University Press
Imprint:   Pennsylvania State University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 20.30cm , Height: 2.10cm , Length: 30.50cm
Weight:   1.080kg
ISBN:  

9780271029559

ISBN 10:   0271029552
Pages:   280
Publication Date:   15 May 2009
Audience:   General/trade ,  Primary & secondary/elementary & high school ,  General ,  Secondary
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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""The author's erudition, lucid writing, and meticulous research make these essays on the themes of marriage, politics, social harmony, and discord excellent reading for undergraduates as well as researchers."" - A. Golahny, Choice ""This is an important book that deserves to be listened to, debated, and absorbed into the discourse of this field."" - Elizabeth Honig, University of California, Berkeley""

The author's erudition, lucid writing, and meticulous research make these essays on the themes of marriage, politics, social harmony, and discord excellent reading for undergraduates as well as researchers. - A. Golahny, Choice This is an important book that deserves to be listened to, debated, and absorbed into the discourse of this field. - Elizabeth Honig, University of California, Berkeley

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Margaret D. Carroll is Professor of Art History at Wellesley College. Her publications include numerous articles on Van Eyck, Rembrandt, and Rubens, as well as the essay ""Accidents Will Happen: A New Look at the Night-watch"" in Rethinking Rembrandt (2002).

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