Classical Mythology in the Netherlands in the Age of Renaissance and Baroque - La Mythologie Classique Aux Temps De La Renaissance Et Du Baroque Dans Les Pays-bas

by Velde, Carl Van De

• ISBN13: 9789042920521
• ISBN10: 9042920521
• Edition: Bilingual
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2009-12-31
• Publisher: Peeters Pub & Booksellers

Summary

Mythology has played an important role in the age of Renaissance and Baroque. The classical myths have provided themes and subjects for the arts in their different expressions: painting, sculpture, literature, music, theatre, ... Mythological figures and stories have often served as moralistic examples, in bono or in malo, and as allegorical points of reference, e.g. in education. The pluridisciplinary study of these phenomena throws light upon the intellectual climate of the period.

Table of Contents

Opening Speech-Allocution d'ouverture	p. 9
Rembrandt, Rubens and Classical Mythology: The Case of Andromeda	p. 25
La figure mythologique comme élément d'argumentation rhétorique dans la correspondance d'Erasme	p. 67
Figures du mythe dans la poésie de la Renaissance italienne	p. 79
Rough Bacchus, neat Andromeda Rubens's mythologies and the meaning of manner	p. 95
Rubens' Judgement of Paris for Philip IV. The Reception of the Nude in Spanish Royal Correspondance	p. 113
Mythological scenes by Rubens in their intellectual context	p. 129
La mythologie et le bon usage de l'antiquité païenne selon André Schott	p. 181
The Development of 16th Century Mythography: Georgius Pictorius's Theologia Mythologica, Apotheosis [...] deorum and Julien De Havrech's De cognominibus deorum gentilium	p. 211
Droit naturel et âge de Saturne chez Grotius	p. 255
La représentation des confins mythiques de l'Antiquité dans les traités cosmographiques des anciens Pays-Bas	p. 271
Bacchus born from Jupiter's thigh tastes better than Bacchus born from Semele	p. 287
Artists, their books, and subjects from mythology	p. 301
Mythology on the early modem humanists' and rhetorician's stage in the Netherlands: the case of Heinsius's Herodes infanticide	p. 333
In Unusual Company: Allegorical Adaptations of the Judgement of Paris	p. 351
Conclusions	p. 385
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