Margit Thøfner
Biographic Data
| ID | 1530177 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Margit Thøfner |
| GIVEN NAMES | Margit |
| FAMILY NAME | Thøfner |
| SIGNATURE | THØFNER M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of East Anglia |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6696-9936 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 13 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2001 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
A Spectacle for a Spanish Princess
Chalk and Cheese
Framing the Enemy
This article is about how one approaches images that are both disjunctive and disjointed. It studies a set of nineteen images by the Flemish printmaker Gaspard Bouttats, focusing on four specific examples. The nineteen prints are now in the Whitworth Gallery but come without any provenance beyond the signature of their maker. Hitherto, they have not been studied in detail, but were in fact made for a book, Prudencio de Sandoval’s Historia de la v…
On Magic, Time and Exchange
This essay has two distinct if closely entwined threads. The first takes its cue from a pair of earrings commissioned by Anna of Denmark-Norway, Queen of Scotland and England. These are situated within certain dynastic traditions of patronage that Anna acquired primarily from her mother, Sophia of Mecklenburg-Güstrow. The second thread is more about method; it advocates the art-historical utility of magical thinking. Such thinking is helpful beca…
Thinking through Denmark
From an Anglophone art-historical perspective, Scandinavia is usually seen as being on the periphery of Europe.Of course, there is a well-embedded tradition of art-historical writing within Scandinavia but much is either parochial in purview or in languages regrettably not accessible to the broader academic world.For this and other reasons there remains a tendency to see Nordic art either as peculiarly local, even indigenous, or else as a belated…
A magnificent faith
Embracing Brussels
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Negotiating Histories
A world (art) of senses, value and display’
Afterword
Spektakel der Macht
Helena Fourment's Het Pelsken
This article focuses on Het Pelsken , a portrait by Peter Paul Rubens depicting his second wife Helena Fourment in a state of undress. It takes its cue from the fact that, for eighteen years of her life, Helena was the undisputed owner of Het Pelsken . The central aim is to give an historically grounded yet nuanced account of Helena's spectatorship in relation to an erotically charged and thus, in the early modern period, potentially troubling im…
Early Photographs of Antwerp
Early Photographs of Antwerp
Helena Fourment's Het Pelsken
This article focuses on Het Pelsken , a portrait by Peter Paul Rubens depicting his second wife Helena Fourment in a state of undress. It takes its cue from the fact that, for eighteen years of her life, Helena was the undisputed owner of Het Pelsken . The central aim is to give an historically grounded yet nuanced account of Helena's spectatorship in relation to an erotically charged and thus, in the early modern period, potentially troubling im…
Spektakel der Macht
Afterword
A world (art) of senses, value and display’
Negotiating Histories
Embracing Brussels
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
A magnificent faith
Framing the Enemy
This article is about how one approaches images that are both disjunctive and disjointed. It studies a set of nineteen images by the Flemish printmaker Gaspard Bouttats, focusing on four specific examples. The nineteen prints are now in the Whitworth Gallery but come without any provenance beyond the signature of their maker. Hitherto, they have not been studied in detail, but were in fact made for a book, Prudencio de Sandoval’s Historia de la v…
On Magic, Time and Exchange
This essay has two distinct if closely entwined threads. The first takes its cue from a pair of earrings commissioned by Anna of Denmark-Norway, Queen of Scotland and England. These are situated within certain dynastic traditions of patronage that Anna acquired primarily from her mother, Sophia of Mecklenburg-Güstrow. The second thread is more about method; it advocates the art-historical utility of magical thinking. Such thinking is helpful beca…
Thinking through Denmark
From an Anglophone art-historical perspective, Scandinavia is usually seen as being on the periphery of Europe.Of course, there is a well-embedded tradition of art-historical writing within Scandinavia but much is either parochial in purview or in languages regrettably not accessible to the broader academic world.For this and other reasons there remains a tendency to see Nordic art either as peculiarly local, even indigenous, or else as a belated…
Chalk and Cheese
A Spectacle for a Spanish Princess
Art (10 works) · Computer Science (6 works) · Visual arts (6 works) · Art history (5 works) · Historical Influence and Diplomacy (5 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Aesthetics (3 works) · Citation (3 works) · History (3 works) · Library science (3 works)