Poussin's Women: Sex and Gender in the Artist's Works

Troy Thomas

Published by Amsterdam University Press 2020

Poussin's Women

Sex and Gender in the Artist's Works

Troy Thomas

Volume 25 in the series Visual and Material Culture, 1300 –1700

https://doi.org/10.1515/9789048552382

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About this book

Poussin’s Women: Sex and Gender in the Artist’s Works 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.

Author / Editor information

Thomas Troy :

Troy Thomas is Associate Professor of Humanities and Art History at The Pennsylvania State University, Harrisburg. His publications include a book, Caravaggio and the Creation of Modernity (2016), and two recent articles, "William Blake and Dead Man," Adaptation and "Poussin, Gombauld, and the Creation of Diana and Endymion," Art History.

Reviews

"There is a great book to be written on Poussin’s women: the goddesses, saints and ordinary mortals who populate an œuvre marked by drastic metamorphoses of style and subject. Troy Thomas is to be applauded for recognising this fact, as well as for his contributions to scholarship on the artist over a long career [...]"
- Emily A. Beeny, The Burlington Magazine, Vol. 163, No. 1422

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	1
Table of Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	5
List of Illustrations Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	11
Acknowledgments Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	21
Part I – Violence and Virtue in Poussin’s Representations of Women Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	23
Part II – Poussin’s Women—Cultural and Social Frames Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	53
Part III- Paintings and Drawings
1. Predators Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	95
2. The Lustful—Triumphant, Impulsive, Spying, Conquered Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	123
3. Lovers—Genuine, Controlling, Unrequited, Jealous Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	171
4. Killers, Transgressors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	205
5. Victims I—Killed, Assaulted Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	227
6. Victims II—Voiceless, Deceived Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	271
7. Heroines, Great Ladies Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	301
Conclusion Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	341
Bibliography Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	355
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	371

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Language: English
Publisher: Amsterdam University Press
Audience: Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 386
Illustrations
- Illustrations: 106
- Coloured Illustrations: 106
Keywords: Nicolas Poussin; Poussin; Women; Gender; Paintings; History of Art

eBook

Published: August 11, 2020
ISBN: 9789048552382