ISBN13: | 9781138251649 |
ISBN10: | 113825164X |
Binding: | Paperback |
No. of pages: | 320 pages |
Size: | 246x174 mm |
Weight: | 453 g |
Language: | English |
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Rubens, Vel-uez, and the King of Spain
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Analyzing the decorative mythological imagery of the hunting lodge of King Philip IV of Spain, this study illuminates the dialogical nature of a painted program, designed largely by Peter Paul Rubens, and supplemented by Diego Velázquez. Careful examination of surviving images in their broader intellectual context reveals their literary, rhetorical, and philosophical underpinnings, and elucidates the complementary perspectives of these two great artists.
'This ambitious study deals with two of the most complex artists of the seventeenth century, who, moreover, represent two different artistic traditions. Habsburg myth making, the emblematic tradition, the mythographic tradition, and innumerable ancient texts are adduced by the authors to build a set of associative meanings around the mythological paintings created for the Torre de la Parada. The authors treat intention and reception with subtlety and deftness, and offer up a rich range of possible meanings for this intriguing pictorial ensemble.' Giles Knox, Indiana University, USA
'In this ambitious book, Aneta Georgievska-Shine and Larry Silver vividly portray Rubens' mythological protagonists not as heroic role models, but as sympathetic figures of flesh and blood. Drawing on Spanish and Netherlandish examples and literary sources, the authors convincingly show that the Torre paintings served both to delight viewers and to propagate the mythic origins and political ambitions of the Spanish Habsburgs. Learned, original and well argued, this study does justice to the complexity of mythological painting in the context of the seventeenth-century Spanish court.' Anna C. Knaap, Emmanuel College, USA
'... the authors have fashioned an encomium of Rubens's intellect and imagination that will give students much to think about.' The Art Newspaper
'... the full-length study by Aneta Georgievska-Shine and Larry Silver is most welcome because it takes Rubens?s and Vel uez?s relationship as its fulcrum. In examining this artistic dialogue within and beyond the Torre cycle, the authors compellingly attend to how these artists exchanges produced not only an ambitious painting cycle but also a court audience ready to embrace these paintings.' Historian of Netherlandish Art Review of Books
'... excellent book ... Renaissance Quarterly
'Georgievska-Shine and Silver provide a compelling framework for interpreting the artistic contri