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Gardens of Love and the Limits of Morality in Early Netherlandish Art
In Gardens of Love and the Limits of Morality in Early Netherlandish Art, Andrea Pearson charts the moralization of human bodies in late medieval and early modern visual culture, through paintings by Jan van Eyck and Hieronymus Bosch, devotional prints and illustrated books, and the celebrated enclosed gardens of Mechelen among other works. Drawing on new archival evidence and innovative visual analysis to reframe familiar religious discourses, she demonstrates that depicted topographies advanced and sometimes resisted bodily critiques expressed in scripture, conduct literature, and even legislation. Governing many of these redemptive greenscapes were the figures of Christ and the Virgin Mary, archetypes of purity whose spiritual authority was impossible to ignore, yet whose mysteries posed innumerable moral challenges. The study reveals that bodily status was the fundamental problem of human salvation, in which artists, patrons, and viewers alike had an interpretive stake.
Actors Carved and Cast
Painting has long dominated discussions of Netherlandish art. Yet in the sixteenth century sculpture was held in considerably higher regard than painting, especially in foreign lands. This beautifully illustrated book is the first comprehensive study of sixteenth-century Netherlandish sculpture, and it opens an important window onto the works and milieu of these artists. Netherlanders dominated the sculptural world of northern Europe. They made the most prestigious tombs and altarpieces, alabaster reliefs, and boxwood collectibles for patrons throughout Iberia, France, and Central Europe. Even in Italy they were a formidable presence; the most famous sculptor in Europe in the second half of ...
Interruptions and Transitions: Essays on the Senses in Medieval and Early Modern Visual Culture
Interruptions and Transitions: Essays on the Senses in Medieval and Early Modern Visual Culture is an anthology of the most recent works by Barbara Baert, discussing the connection between the experiences of the senses in the medieval and early modern visual culture, the hermeneutics of imagery, and the limits and possibilities of contemporary Art Sciences. The six chapters include Pentecost, Noli me tangere, the woman with an issue of blood, the Johannesschüssel, the dancing Salome, and the role of the wind. The reader is shown a medieval and early modern visual culture as a history of artistic solutions, as the fascinating approach between biblical texts, plastic imagination, and the art-scientific métier. This makes him a privileged guest in a unique in-between space where humans and their artistic expression can meet existentially.
Art and Mysticism
From the visual and textual art of Anglo-Saxon England onwards, images held a surprising power in the Western Christian tradition. Not only did these artistic representations provide images through which to find God, they also held mystical potential, and likewise mystical writing, from the early medieval period onwards, is also filled with images of God that likewise refracts and reflects His glory. This collection of essays introduces the currents of thought and practice that underpin this artistic engagement with Western Christian mysticism, and explores the continued link between art and theology. The book features contributions from an international panel of leading academics, and is di...
The Song of Songs Through the Ages
The Song of Songs is a fascinating text. Read as an allegory of God’s love for Israel, the Church, or individual believers, it became one of the most influential texts from the Bible. This volume includes twenty-three essays that cover the Song’s reception history from antiquity to the present. They illuminate the richness of this reception history, paying attention to diverse interpretations in commentaries, sermons, and other literature, as well as the Song’s impact on spirituality, theological and intellectual debates, and the arts.
The Agency of Things in Medieval and Early Modern Art
This volume explores the late medieval and early modern periods from the perspective of objects. While the agency of things has been studied in anthropology and archaeology, it is an innovative approach for art historical investigations. Each contributor takes as a point of departure active things: objects that were collected, exchanged, held in hand, carried on a body, assembled, cared for or pawned. Through a series of case studies set in various geographic locations, this volume examines a rich variety of systems throughout Europe and beyond. The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.taylorfrancis.com/doi/view/10.4324/9781315401867, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license
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‘Aan het rijtje vrouwelijke kunstenaars dat redelijk bekend is, voegen ze namen toe van vrouwen die wat hen betreft ook steengoed werk maakten. Het resultaat is een opgewekt boek waarin allerlei vrouwelijke kunstenaars door de eeuwen heen de revue passeren, en waarover korte biografische schetsen en anekdotes worden verteld.’ NRC ‘Hun boek is niet zomaar een opsomming van kunstenaarsbiografieën, maar een reeks toegankelijke essays.’ de Volkskrant ‘Tof boek!’ Noordhollands Dagblad e.a. De Kunstmeisjes laten je op een vermakelijke en voor iedereen begrijpelijke wijze kennismaken met vrouwelijke kunstenaars die je versteld zullen doen staan en het waard zijn om nooit meer te verget...
About Sieves and Sieving
The sieve exhibits a wide-ranging symbolism that extends across art history, philosophy, anthropology, psychoanalysis, and gender studies. Barbara Baert looks at the sieve from an interdisciplinary perspective and from four different innovative methodological angles: as motif and symbol, as technique and as paradigm. The sieve as motif goes back to Roman stories the Vestal Virgins. In later times, their impermeable sieve, which - according to legend - they used to fetch water from the River Tiber, was iconographically transferred to Elisabeth I as a sign of her integrity. Furthermore, the long durée life of sieves as symbolic-technical utilitarian object is investigated: in examples from the Jewish folklore, the Berber culture, and ancient Egypt.
'Denn wo dein Schatz ist, da ist auch dein Herz'
Der Kardiologe Armin Dietz dokumentiert in diesem medizin- und kulturhistorisch einzigartigen Werk auf Basis jahrzehntelanger Recherchen Hunderte von Herzbestattungen. Zahlreiche Bilder illustrieren die auch kunsthistorische Bedeutung dieses Phänomens in Form von Kardiotaphen, Herzurnen und anderen Grabmonumenten. Heute wirkt eine getrennte Bestattung des Herzens vom Rest des Körpers wie ein morbider Brauch aus grauer Vorzeit. Doch das Wort aus dem Matthäus-Evangelium "Denn wo dein Schatz ist, da ist auch dein Herz" eröffnet eine andere Perspektive: Der Ruheort des Herzens erhält hier eine materielle, emotionale und mythische Bedeutung. Was bei der Rückbringung gefallener Kreuzfahrer i...
De geuren van de kathedraal
Een vlaag van natte hond wurmt zich door dikke blauwe wierookwolken in de Onze-Lieve-Vrouwekerk. De penetrante geur van lijken in ontbinding vermengt zich met de parfumwalm van opgetutte kooplui. Aan een van de tientallen zijaltaren rinkelt voor de honderdste keer een bel. Orgelspel en klokkengelui overstemmen de kreet van een marktkramer bij het portaal. In het schemerduister, langs monumentale schilderijen en fluwelen gordijnen, turen heiligen naar de wirwar van kerkgangers. En wat te denken van de vrouwen die afgehakte vingers onder het altaar verstoppen? Laat je in dit boek meevoeren naar een van dé hotspots van de 16de eeuw: de Onze-Lieve-Vrouwekerk, vanaf 1559 de 'kathedraal' van Antwerpen. Dit majestueuze bouwwerk was het kloppend hart van de stad, waar diepgelovige parochianen het pad kruisten met hondenslagers, pelgrims en veehandelaars. De religieuze sereniteit was er soms ver te zoeken.
