Poussin's WomenPub Date : 2020-08-11DOI: 10.2307/j.ctv15d7zwj.7
Troy Thomas
{"title":"Predators","authors":"Troy Thomas","doi":"10.2307/j.ctv15d7zwj.7","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv15d7zwj.7","url":null,"abstract":"Chapter 1 considers Poussin’s canvases representing Cephalus and Aurora and\u0000 Diana and Endymion, focusing on the goddesses as sexual predators who snare\u0000 innocent mortal males, dominating them in love. Their stories reflect a patriarchal\u0000 inversion in which men project the belief that females control them in love, whereas\u0000 in Poussin’s time the reverse was normally the case, as exemplified in laws and\u0000 customs severely restricting women’s sexual activities outside of marriage.","PeriodicalId":177922,"journal":{"name":"Poussin's Women","volume":"4 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-08-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122747625","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Poussin's WomenPub Date : 2020-08-11DOI: 10.2307/j.ctv15d7zwj.9
T. Thomas
{"title":"Lovers—Genuine, Controlling, Unrequited, Jealous","authors":"T. Thomas","doi":"10.2307/j.ctv15d7zwj.9","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv15d7zwj.9","url":null,"abstract":"Poussin’s paintings present a wide range of approaches to love. Deeply felt love\u0000 is portrayed in his Venus and Adonis (two versions), Acis and Galatea, Triumph\u0000 of Neptune and Amphitrite, Arcadian Shepherds (first version), Spring (Earthly\u0000 Paradise), and Summer. Mars and Venus depicts controlling love. Unfulfilled love is\u0000 shown in his Tancred and Erminia (two versions) and Venus with the Dead Adonis,\u0000 while Landscape with Juno and Argus represents jealous love.","PeriodicalId":177922,"journal":{"name":"Poussin's Women","volume":"22 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-08-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132099755","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Poussin's WomenPub Date : 2020-08-11DOI: 10.2307/j.ctv15d7zwj.10
T. Thomas
{"title":"Killers, Transgressors","authors":"T. Thomas","doi":"10.2307/j.ctv15d7zwj.10","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv15d7zwj.10","url":null,"abstract":"The explosive aggressiveness or peevishness of women and goddesses in several\u0000 works by Poussin result in tragic deaths. Works depicting killers in this chapter\u0000 include Medea Killing her Children, Diana Killing Acteon, Landscape with Diana\u0000 and Orion, and Diana Slaying Chione. Transgressors who suffer transformation\u0000 or death include Myrrha in the Birth of Adonis; Aglauros in Mercury, Herse, &\u0000 Aglauros, and Sapphira in the Death of Sapphira.","PeriodicalId":177922,"journal":{"name":"Poussin's Women","volume":"27 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-08-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134604115","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Poussin's WomenPub Date : 2020-08-11DOI: 10.1515/9789048552382-004
T. Thomas
{"title":"Part II – Poussin’s Women—Cultural and Social Frames","authors":"T. Thomas","doi":"10.1515/9789048552382-004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/9789048552382-004","url":null,"abstract":"Part II examines Poussin’s works from the perspective of attitudes about women\u0000 in seventeenth-century Italy and France. His ancient and contemporary literary\u0000 sources are investigated from a gender studies viewpoint, as are his ideas on art.\u0000 The impact on Poussin of changing views of gender in French theater is analyzed,\u0000 and the values of his patrons are explored.","PeriodicalId":177922,"journal":{"name":"Poussin's Women","volume":"25 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-08-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121437657","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Poussin's WomenPub Date : 2020-08-11DOI: 10.2307/j.ctv15d7zwj.12
T. Thomas
{"title":"Victims II—Voiceless, Deceived","authors":"T. Thomas","doi":"10.2307/j.ctv15d7zwj.12","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv15d7zwj.12","url":null,"abstract":"Further categories of victimhood appear in Poussin’s works, including the voiceless\u0000 and the deceived, making examples of this broad theme of female victims\u0000 (including those discussed in Chapter 5) the most common in his oeuvre. In the\u0000 present chapter, all of the victims are female. The voiceless are found in Echo and\u0000 Narcissus, Hercules and Deianeira, the Continence of Scipio, and the Testament of\u0000 Eudamidas. Deceived women appear in the Birth of Bacchus, Achilles Among the\u0000 Daughters of Lycomedes, and the Judgment of Solomon.","PeriodicalId":177922,"journal":{"name":"Poussin's Women","volume":"51 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-08-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123327744","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Poussin's WomenPub Date : 2020-08-11DOI: 10.2307/j.ctv15d7zwj.8
T. Thomas
{"title":"The Lustful—Triumphant, Impulsive, Spying, Conquered","authors":"T. Thomas","doi":"10.2307/j.ctv15d7zwj.8","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv15d7zwj.8","url":null,"abstract":"Poussin explores the full range of lust and uninhibited sexual desire in his mythological\u0000 works, from jubilant exuberance and celebration of passion in his Triumph\u0000 of Pan and Hymenaios Disguised as a Woman During an Offering to Priapus, to the\u0000 impulsive erotic infatuation of Armida in his two versions of Rinaldo and Armida;\u0000 and from shepherds and satyrs spying upon females in Venus Espied by Shepherds\u0000 and Landscape with Polyphemus, to lust and love conquered in Amor Vincit Pan\u0000 and Venus and Mercury. He examines every aspect of desire: love’s triumph, its\u0000 darker impulses, and finally its defeat.","PeriodicalId":177922,"journal":{"name":"Poussin's Women","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-08-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129053900","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}