Summary: This book is the first comprehensive investigation of the most paradigmatic aspect of Baroque visual culture: the Rubensian nude. Did contemporary audiences recognise the sensuously painted ‘Rubensian body’ as a particular, if not peculiar, artistic repertoire? How can we best understand seventeenth-century practises of reading and viewing the Rubensian body? Can our criteria for eroticism be linked with that of Rubens? Was the body a ‘fluid’ category for Rubens and where does the boundary of the human body lie? It is hoped that these investigative questions will lead to a detailed evaluation about the paradigmatic status of the Rubensian body and whether we are justified in stressing its singularity within seventeenth-century Flemish and the broader early modern European visual culture.

Contents: Cordula van Wyhe, Introduction. Getting under the Skin of the Imaged Body ; Andreas Thielemann, Stone to Flesh - Rubens's Treatise De imitatione statuarum ; Jørgen Wadum and Anne Haack Christensen, Painting human flesh - Theory compared to Jacob Jordaens' practice ; Joost Vander Auwera, Size Matters! On the importance and significance of life-size figures in Rubens' paintings ; Suzanne J. Walker, Rubens's Victims. Images of the Assaulted Male Body ; Margit Thøfner, Milky Bosoms. Rubens, Breasts and Maternity ; Karolien de Clippel, Vibrant Veils and Daring Draperies. On Rubens' clothing of nymphs and goddesses ; Jacques Bos, Rubens and early modern psychology ; Lucy Davis, 'On feet made unsteady by age and wine' - Rubens' Silenus and Human Aging ; Katerina Georgoulia, Rubens and Early Modern Dietary Science ; Elizabeth McGrath, Black Bodies and Dionysiac Revels - Rubens' Bacchic Ethiopians ; Irene Schaudies, 'Boistrous druncken headed imaginary gods' - Bacchic bodies of Rubens and Jordaens ; Joanna Wooddall, Afterword. (The Body in Art, 3)

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