Rubens and the Archaeology of Myth, 1610 1620: Visual and Poetic Memory

ISBN-13: 9781138265981 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 242 str.

Aneta Georgievska-Shine

Opis

Focusing on four Rubens paintings created between 1610 and 1620, this book re-examines the artist's approach to classical mythology through a set of theoretically-informed close readings. Taken together, these case studies provide a fuller understanding of the dynamics of Rubens's copious pictorial language, and can serve as methodological templates for looking at, and reading of, many other of his complex inventions.

Spis treści

Contents: Preface; Introduction: Rubens and the historical sense of ancient myths; The revolt of the imagination and the reason of history in Prometheus Bound; The Daughters of Leucippus and the exemplarity of a rape; The Eyes of Argus and the eloquence of hieroglyphs; Erichthonius, or the serious joke of fables; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index.

O autorze

Aneta Georgievska-Shine is an independent scholar in Washington D.C., who teaches part-time in the Departments of Art History and Fine Arts at the University of Maryland, College Park. Her publications include articles in journals such as Artibus et Historiae, Marburger Jahrbuch für Kunstwissenschaft, The Art Bulletin, Word and Image, and Nederlands Kunsthistorisch Jaarboek, as well as essays in several anthologies and exhibition catalogues.