Mère, déesse, reine: Marie de Médicis en Cybèle

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  • Anna Walecka Brown University

Abstract

The iconographic and rhetorical traditions introducing Cybèle as one of the Marie de Médicis mythological portraits, converge in the frontispiece of the Diverses Pieces pour la Defence de la Royne Mere de Roy Tres-Chrestien Louis Xlll. Through Cybèle, a political discourse is transformed into sexual discourse, linking the fertility of the queen "mother of three kings," the sterility of Louis XIII, and Riche lieu's castrating power. When she appears as Cybèle, Marie de Médicis' participation in power is predicated upon a sacred concept of motherhood.

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Published

1993-10-01

Issue

Vol. 19 No. 1 (1993)

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Original Research

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