Occult knowledge and sacred geometry. A new interpretation of a portrait of Rubens and his son from the Hermitage Museum
This paper explores the diversity and complexity of Rubens’s humanist interests and illustrates his appropriation of learned and esoteric knowledge, by discussing the anonymous painting in the Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg in which Rubens is portrayed together with his son Albert. This portrait also depicts a sculpture from Rubens’s collection, that of Hecate Triformis, who in antiquity was considered to be a goddess of the underworld. By focusing on the books, manuscripts, Gnostic gems, and the Hecate statue from the artist’s collections, this paper will provide a new iconographic analys... Mehr ...
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Dokumenttyp: | Artikel |
Reihe/Periodikum: | Jaarboek de zeventiende eeuw |
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Leiden,
Werkgroep Zeventiende Eeuw
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Sprache: | Niederländisch |
ISSN: | 0921-142X |
Weitere Identifikatoren: | doi: 10.18352/dze.10130 |
Permalink: | https://search.fid-benelux.de/Record/olc-benelux-1995019186 |
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Datenquelle: | Online Contents Benelux; Originalkatalog |
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Link(s) : | http://dx.doi.org/10.18352/dze.10130
http://dx.doi.org/10.18352/dze.10130 |
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