Foreign Relations: Figuring Faith and Femininity in the Age of Rubens

Abstract Foreign Relations: Figuring Faith and Femininity in the Age of Rubens by Jamie Vanessa LyonDoctor of Philosophy in History of ArtUniversity of California, Berkeley Professor Elizabeth Honig, ChairThe first part of my title, Foreign Relations, is meant to conjure up the many valences of this phrase in the life and works of Peter Paul Rubens (1577-1640). On the most obvious level, it points to his part time employment as a multi-linguistic diplomat negotiating peace on behalf of the Governor of the Spanish Netherlands, Isabel Clara Eugenia (1566-1633), the Spanish-born daughter of Phili... Mehr ...