Painting and Politics in Northern Europe HBJD a young David Hockney (b

a young David Hockney (b

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sapphires denoted eternal love and emeralds desire and hope

agitated for land and monetary reform

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Painting and Politics in Northern Europe HBJD a young David Hockney (bPainting and Politics in Northern Europe offers a chronological account of political engagement in works by the early modern Northern European painters Jan van Eyck, Pieter Bruegel the Elder, Peter Paul Rubens, and Frans Snyders. Offering fresh interpretations of canonical paintings, Margaret Carroll illustrates how these artists registered their pictorial responses to the political events and debates of their day. The imagery of gender and power was