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Title: Born to Reign: Velázquez's Gendered Portraits of the Spanish Infantes
Description: This paper examines Diego Velázquez's portraits of Margarita Teresa and Baltasar Carlos to achieve an understanding of the children¹s political and gendered identities.
Date Created: 2014
PID: grinnell:11383

Title: Divinity and Power: Gendered Constructions of Identity in Portraits of Marie de Medici and Henry IV
Description: This essay compares 17th century portraits of Marie de Medici and those of her husband Henry IV of France in the context of gender performativity.
Date Created: 2013
PID: grinnell:31910

Title: Hunting for a Hen: Bird Imagery and Erotic Connotations in Rembrandt, Snyders and Dow
Description: This essay explors the erotic connotations of bird imagery in the works of 17th century European painters.
Date Created: 2014
PID: grinnell:31905

Title: Matter, Agency, and Transcendence in Milton's Prose and Verse
Description: In contrast to critics who characterize John Milton's work as unconcerned with the material world, this essay argues that the material world is crucial to Milton's conception of the sublime.
Date Created: 2014
PID: grinnell:31903

Title: Milton and the Disintegration of the Public Space
Description: I examine the role of writing and the poet in creating knowledge through an analysis of Milton’s history of the public sphere. I
Date Created: 2014
PID: grinnell:30067

Title: Sin for a Sign? Another Look at Milton's Sin and Death
Description: This essay contends that Milton's critique of Sin and Death, and allegory more generally, lies in their relation to his system of signs and the epistemological value of those signs.
Date Created: 2013
PID: grinnell:31911