Rubenianum lecture on the dramatic potential of the portrait
Drs. Bert Watteeuw (Rubenianum) will give a lecture on the dramatic potential of the portrait.
This lecture will focus on the portrait as a literary motif. Through a reading of seventeenth-century tragedies, comedies, novellas, folk stories, songs, satires and jokes it will reveal emotional and even passionate aspects that remain skillfully hidden from view in the sitter's composed and ...