Painting and politics in northern Europe: Van Eyck, Bruegel, Rubens, and their contemporaries

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Contents List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction 1.. The Merchant's Mirror: Jan van Eyck's Arnolfini Portrait 2. Breaking Bonds: Marriage and Community in Bruegel's Netherlandish Proverbs and Carnival and Lent 3. The Conceits of Empire: Bruegel's Ice-Skating Outside St. George's Gate in Antwerp and Tower of Babel 4. The Erotics of Absolutism: Rubens and the Mystification of Sexual Violence 5. Womanliness as a Masquerade: The Case of Marie de Medicis 6. The Nature of Violence: Animal Combat in the Seventeenth Century Notes Bibliography Index