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- Title
WATCHING WOMEN WATCHING WARRIORS: NICOLAS POUSSIN'S TANCRED AND ERMINIA AND THE VISUALITY OF PAPAL COURT TOURNAMENTS.
- Authors
PLOCK, PHILLIPPA
- Abstract
Nicolas Poussin's "Tancred and Erminia" centres on a woman's gaze. In its reference to noblewomen watching jousting knights, a motif present in the source poem, I argue that the format of the painting drew on ritualized practices of viewing. Contemporary depictions of a tournament reveal the specificities of this visuality for Poussin's patrons. In its replication of the classed and gendered spectatorship of papal court jousts, "Tancred and Erminia" was able to encourage aspiring papal courtiers to empathize with a coveted viewpoint gendered feminine. In so doing, I believe it offered viewers the possibility to identify with a standpoint, a cultural position of viewing constituted through representation.
- Subjects
POUSSIN, Nicolas, ca. 1594-1665; RING jousting in art; WOMEN in art -- Social aspects; ART criticism
- Publication
Art History, 2008, Vol 31, Issue 2, p139
- ISSN
0141-6790
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/j.1467-8365.2008.00603.x