Comparing Herman Roodenburg And Joanna Woodall

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The authors, Herman Roodenburg and Joanna Woodall, each address the common theme of portraying the European-self in 16th and 17th century Netherlands. They especially emphasize the importance of the European body as a means to display social decorum, propriety and civility, especially in the public domain. Although both authors discuss these similar ideas of European portraiture and social order of the body, Woodall establishes the historical, social and political reasonings behind Roodenburg’s diagrammatic approach to the central theme. In his article, Roodenburg focuses on tangible examples of European portraiture to emphasize the physicality of the European body as a means to signify social standing and decorum. However, Woodall takes a