Devotional portraiture and spiritual experience in early Netherlandish painting /
"In Devotional Portraiture and Spiritual Experience Ingrid Falque analyses the meditative functions of early Netherlandish paintings including devotional portraits, that is portraits of people kneeling in prayer. Such paintings have been mainly studied in the context of commemorative and social...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English Dutch French Latin |
| Language Notes: | Includes quotations in Latin, Dutch, or French, some with English translation. |
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Leiden ; Boston :
Brill,
[2019]
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| Series: | Brill's studies in intellectual history ;
v. 299. Brill's studies in intellectual history. Brill's studies on art, art history, and intellectual history ; v. 38. |
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| Summary: | "In Devotional Portraiture and Spiritual Experience Ingrid Falque analyses the meditative functions of early Netherlandish paintings including devotional portraits, that is portraits of people kneeling in prayer. Such paintings have been mainly studied in the context of commemorative and social practices, but as Ingrid Falque shows, they also served as devotional instruments. By drawing parallels between the visual strategies of these paintings and texts of the major spiritual writers of the medieval Low Countries, she demonstrates that paintings with devotional portraits functioned as a visualisation of the spiritual process of the sitters. The books is accompanied by the first exhaustive catalogue of paintings with devotional portraits produced in the Low Countries between c. 1400 and 1550."--Back cover. |
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| Physical Description: | xxi, 310 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), graph ; 25 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 277-300) and indexes. |
| ISBN: | 9789004409743 9789004369757 9004369759 9789004409729 9004409726 |
| ISSN: | 0920-8607 ; |