A Hunt for Love: Rubens’ Abducted Female Figurations with Alexandra Argitis Mantha
- Day: Thursday
- Date: April 24, 2025
- Time: 10:00am-12:00pm
- Location: In Person @ Carleton University
- Price: $50 +HST
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Overview
This lecture will examine the famous Baroque painter Peter Paul Rubens and his mythological series commissioned for the Torre de la Parada ( a hunting lodge in Spain), but more precisely, his Rape of Proserpine. Designed to be a conversation between Ovid’s text and Rubens’ visual translation, this course will explore scenes of mythological abduction through lenses historical, cultural, and literary, as we assess representations of sexual violence, and its mythologization in Renaissance and Baroque art.
About the Lecturer
Alexandra Argitis received her Undergraduate and Master’s in Art History at Concordia University. Her thesis explores Rubens’ mythological adaptations of abduction, considering the tropes and ethics of representing sexual violence in mytholoigcal painting. Her research interests include Medieval and Renaissance art, Classical and Greek mytholoigcal studies, philosophy of aesthetics and the sublime, as well as color theory and Abstract Expressionism.
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