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Author Thomas, Troy, author.

Title Poussin's Women : Sex and Gender in the Artist's Works / Troy Thomas.

Publication Info. Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, [2020]

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Description 1 online resource (385 pages) : illustrations (chiefly color).
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series Visual and material culture, 1300-1700
Visual and material culture, 1300-1700.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 355-370) and index.
Contents Violence and virtue in Poussin's representations of women -- Poussin's women: cultural and social frames -- Paintings and drawings.
Summary This book examines the paintings and drawings of the well-known seventeenth-century French painter Nicolas Poussin (1594-1665) from a gender studies perspective, focusing on a critical analysis of his representations of women. The book's thematic chapters investigate Poussin's women in their roles as predators, as lustful or the objects of lust, as lovers, killers, victims, heroines, or models of virtue. Poussin's paintings reflect issues of gender within his social situation as he consciously or unconsciously articulated its conflicts and assumptions. A gender studies approach brings to light new critical insights that illuminate how the artist represented women, both positively and negatively, within the framework in his seventeenth-century culture. This book covers the artist's works from Classical mythology, Roman history, Tasso, and the Bible. It serves as a good overview of Poussin as an artist, discussing the latest research and including new interpretations of his major works.
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Subject Poussin, Nicolas, 1594?-1665 -- Criticism and interpretation.
Poussin, Nicolas, 1594?-1665.
Criticism and interpretation.
Poussin, Nicolas, 1594?-1665 -- Criticism and interpretation.
Women in art.
Women in art.
Painting, French -- 17th century.
Painting, French.
Chronological Term 17th century
Subject Gender identity in art.
Sex in art.
Sex in art.
Gender identity in art.
ART -- History -- Baroque & Rococo.
Chronological Term 1600-1699
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
ISBN 9789048552382 (electronic book)
9048552389 (electronic book)