Abstract | Keywords | Export | Availability | Bookmark

Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

This thoroughly interdisciplinary collection of essays explores the multi-faceted relationship between international politics, diplomacy and the visual arts that developed during the early seventeenth century. Several chapters provide major re-evaluations of the career of Peter Paul Rubens as an artistdiplomat, based on previously neglected manuscript sources and a deepened analysis of the social and political environments in which he operated. Other contributors focus on Rubenss contemporary court artists, such as Anthony van Dyck, Guido Reni and Diego Velázquez. In addition to providing original interpretations of several important paintings and painting cycles, the volume examines such topics as the evolution of personified images of nationality, representations of dynastic marriages, the material culture of royal bridal trousseaus, the importance of details of costume and colour to the visual codes of baroque courts, and the roles played by artists within court societies. Ranging across Western Europe, from England to the Low Countries, France, Germany, Spain and Italy, these essays demonstrate conclusively the subtlety and complexity of visual communication within early baroque court societies, which enabled artists to convey complex political messages through paintings. The contributors to this volume display a variety of methodological approaches, demonstrating many different ways in which historical research can be fruitfully integrated with art historical analysis to generate new insights into both the visual culture and the politics of baroque Europe. -- publisher's statement.

Rubens, Peter Paul --- Painters --- Kings and rulers in art --- Painting, Baroque --- Thirty Years' War, 1618-1648 --- Peintres --- Rois et souverains dans l'art --- Peinture baroque --- Guerre de Trente Ans, 1618-1648 --- Political activity --- Congresses --- Political aspects --- Activité politique --- Congrès --- Aspect politique --- Rubens, Peter Paul, --- Art --- Art, European --- Art, Flemish --- Politics in art --- History --- Themes, motives --- Art européen --- Art flamand --- Politics in art. --- Politique dans l'art --- Thèmes, motifs --- Histoire --- Political aspects. --- Themes, motives. --- 1600-1699. --- Europe. --- Activité politique --- Congrès --- Art et diplomatie --- politics --- diplomacy --- International relations. Foreign policy --- History of civilization --- anno 1600-1699 --- Europe --- Rubens, Petrus Paulus --- Congresses. --- 17th century --- Art - Political aspects - Europe - History - 17th century - Congresses --- Art, European - 17th century - Themes, motives - Congresses --- Art, Flemish - 17th century - Themes, motives - Congresses --- Politics in art - Congresses --- Rubens, Peter Paul, - 1577-1640 - Congresses --- Rubens, Peter Paul, - 1577-1640 --- kunst en politiek