1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910795309603321

Autore

Pearson Andrea G.

Titolo

Gardens of love and the limits of morality in early Netherlandish art / / by Andrea Pearson

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Leiden ; ; Boston : , : Brill, , [2019]

ISBN

90-04-39310-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (378 pages)

Collana

Brill's studies in intellectual history, , 0920-8607 ; ; volume 296

Brill's studies on art, art history, and intellectual history ; ; volume 37

Disciplina

743.4

Soggetti

Human figure in art

Art, Netherlandish

Art and morals - Benelux countries

Arts and religion - Benelux countries

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Front Matter -- Copyright page -- Dedication -- Acknowledgements -- Figures -- The Erotics of Virtue -- Moralized Love -- Disability and Redemption -- Monastic Morality -- Holy Matrimony -- Infancy Moralized -- Kissing Kids -- The Limits of Mother-Son Eroticism -- Back Matter -- Bibliography -- Index.

Sommario/riassunto

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.

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910220514003321

Autore

Eriksson Niklas

Titolo

Riksäpplet : Arkeologiska perspektiv på ett bortglömt regalskepp

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Gothenburg, : Kriterium, 2017

ISBN

91-88168-79-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (224)

Soggetti

History

Early modern history: c 1450/1500 to c 1700

Archaeology

Underwater archaeology

Archaeological science, methodology & techniques

Military & naval ships

Stockholm (Sweden) Antiquities

Lingua di pubblicazione

Swedish

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Sommario/riassunto

"Riksäpplet deals with a shipwreck that has a neglected position in the grand narrative of the history of the Swedish navy. The story of its destiny and the missing accounts in scholarly and popular works in history says something about heritage processes within Swedish maritime archaeology. On 5 June 1676 Riksäpplet came loose and adrift from its moorings outside Dalarö Sea fortress. The hull struck a rock and sank. The loss was considered both ignominious and embarrassing and the ship’s fate has been overlooked in all major history books. The rock onto which Riksäpplet sank was named ‘Äpplet’ after the incident, and the wreck itself has become an integrated component of the underwater seascape. As a consequence the wreckage has never enjoyed a proper ‘discovery’ or undergone documentation under the sensational forms that many other famous shipwrecks have, even



though they have sunk in more inconvenient places.
In Eriksson’s study the official handling of Riksäpplet’s wrecked body is compared to the more wellknown ships Kronan and Svärdet, which both sank during battle only days before. Eriksson draws on different motifs and driving forces behind the study of naval wrecks from the period from his comparison, and the differences are discussed. Riksäpplet has never achieved a prominent position with the romanticising works of history that honour the national heroes and their deeds which are associated with this era of the Swedish Empire. The first half of the book thus sets out to unpack the ideas that have led to the relative disinterest in Riksäpplet in comparison to other shipwrecks.
The second half of the book sets out to analyse Riksäpplet from a specific archaeological perspective, with focus on the ship as material culture. Eriksson’s departure is to explore the relatively low budget fieldwork that has been done at the wreck site. He the combines those facts with a survey of the artefacts recovered from the wreck, of which all are kept in museum archives and private collections. This, in addition to his studies of preserved written correspondence concerning the construction of the ship, has brought new insights into seventeenth-century shipbuilding and how the balance between the global political superpowers affected this trade. In this context Riksäpplet has great potential to show how military alliances are materialized through ships’ architecture.