Rubens and the Thirty Years War
5/11/2012 to 5/12/2012
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11-12 May 2012
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Malcolm Smuts
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Using the career of Peter Paul Rubens as an organizing thread, this
conference will examine the complex relationships between diplomacy,
dynastic politics and the visual arts during the early stages of the
Thirty Years War. What role did exchanges of art and artists play in
the diplomacy of this period? How did these exchanges contribute to the
development of international formulas for the representation of power
and glory? To what extent had dynastic languages and diplomacy created a
sdhared visual language of power and authority throughout Western
Europe, as opposed to distinctive national, dynastic or even personal
formulas favored by particular patrons? By addressing these and related
questions in a thoroughly interdisciplinary we seek to illuminate not
only Rubens's own work but the interplay between international dynastic
politics and the visual language of powerduring a critical fifteen year
period.
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