Rubens's Dying Seneca and Masculinity

This essay reconstructs the reception of Rubens's moving painting of Seneca's death (ca. 1615, Alte Pinakothek, Munich), based on Tacitus's narrative in the Annals, by men who were its likely target audience: educated professionals influenced by Neostoicism and Justus Lipsius's w...

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Main Author: Hults, Linda C. (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Sixteenth Century Journal Publishers, Inc. [2018]
In: The sixteenth century journal
Year: 2018, Volume: 49, Issue: 3, Pages: 663-690
RelBib Classification:NBE Anthropology
TJ Modern history
Further subjects:B RUBENS, Peter Paul, Sir, 1577-1640
B MASCULINITY in art
B TACITUS, Cornelius, 56-117
B LIPSIUS, Justus, 1547-1606
B Feminist Theory
B SENECA, Lucius Annaeus, ca. 4 B.C.-65 A.D
B Transcendence (Philosophy)
B NEO-Stoicism