EACH WORK IN RUBENS' SERIES ON QUEEN MARIE DE MEDICIS ILLUSTRATES A DRAMA.
Explain that nudity is the clothing of the gods, that the figures are superhuman and imaginary and that corpulence shows prosperity.
- For children: a feisty queen, a prince, princesses and monsters
- For teens and adults, political messages...
...that highlight rulers, then the people
and that a new elite adapts and drops
when it feels secure enough to invent its own code.
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