In:Rubens: The Garden of Love as Conversatie à la mode
Elise Goodman
[OCULI: Studies in the Arts of the Low Countries 4] 1992
► pp. v–viii
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Table of contents
Preface and acknowledgmentsix
1. Conversatie à la mode, Conversatie van joffrs, or Garden of Love: Choosing amoung
the titles1
2. Garden of Love: Establishing the pictorial contexts11
3. La Mode: Making the French connection21
4. Conversatie: Incorporating the theory of pleasure and leisure31
5. A la mode: Presenting fashionable ladies and gentlemen39
6. Conversatie van joffrs: Idealizing the coquette47
7. Garden of Love: Relating the lady to the landscape57
8. Conversatie: Poeticizing the painting65
9. The Conversatie à la mode: Showing the society at play73
Notes85
Selected bibliography113
List of illustrations121
Photographic acknowledgements125
Illustrations127
Index191
