De Chaucer à Cranach: vers une nouvelle image poétique et picturale de Lucrèce?
- Author / Editor
- Blandeau, Agnès.
De Chaucer à Cranach: vers une nouvelle image poétique et picturale de Lucrèce?
- Published
- Karine Martin-Cardini and Jocelyne Aubé-Bourligueux, eds. Le Néo: sources, héritages et réécritures dans les cultures européennes (Rennes: Presses Universitaires de Rennes, 2016), pp. 169-80.
- Description
- Examines echoes, resemblances, and differences between the evocations of Lucretia in LGW, BD, and CT, and German painter Lucas Cranach's portrait (1513) of the Roman paragon of wifely virtue. References to Chaucer's poems, its ancient sources, and the sensuous pictorial representation reveal how the image of Lucretia evolved from the mythic, classic icon to a more realistic, erotic figure. Argues that she morphed, through the prism of male imagination, from an ancient archetype of near saintly perfection, to a prototype of the new woman in the Renaissance.
- Contributor
- Martin-Cardini, Karine, ed.
Aubé-Bourligueux, Jocelyne, ed.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Sources, Analogues and Literary Relations
Book of the Duchess
Legend of Good Women
Canterbury Tales--General