Namitha Thomas

The Religious Constraints Upon Ruebens art impeding ones Identity within Modernism

The Religious Constraints Upon Rueben Art Impeding One Identity within Modernism explored Peter Paul Rubens's painting of 'Marie De Medici Cycle' and 'The Death of Marat' by Jacques-Louis David - To expand T.J Clarks reasoning upon the beginning of Modernism.

“My analysisl dwells deeper to strengthen T.J. Clark’s claim that “Modernism turns on the impossibility of transcendence.” This will be reinforced through the visual, narrative, and subject comparisons of two French paintings: The Triumph of Juliers from the Marie de’ Medici Cycle by Peter Paul Rubens (1622–1625), and the catalyst for modernism following Clark — Jacques-Louis David’s 1793 painting The Death of Marat. Particularly in how both artists, with over a century’s difference, utilized the principles of the Counter-Reformation to elevate their subject’s role within French history during two distinct eras where the Catholic Church faced growing backlash from French politics.”