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Record Nr.

UNINA9910511611703321

Autore

Falque Ingrid

Titolo

Devotional portraiture and spiritual experience in early Netherlandish painting / / by Ingrid Falque

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Leiden Boston : , : BRILL, , 2019

ISBN

90-04-39760-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (334 pages)

Collana

Brill's Studies in Intellectual History; ; volume299-38

Disciplina

757.09492

Soggetti

Portrait painting, Netherlandish

Devotion in art

Christian art and symbolism - Benelux countries - Medieval, 500-1500

Christian art and symbolism - Benelux countries - Renaissance, 1450-1600

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (pages 277-300) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Front Matter -- Copyright page -- Dedication -- Acknowledgements -- Figures and Graph -- Abbreviations -- Note to the Reader -- Introduction -- Ora pro me -- Via ad Deum -- Ascensiones in corde disposuit -- Eene vergaderinghe van twee personen die comen van diverschen staden -- In spiritualem quandam armoniam -- Conclusions -- Back Matter -- Bibliography -- Index of Names -- Index of Places.

Sommario/riassunto

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 book is accompanied by the first exhaustive catalogue of paintings with devotional portraits produced in the Low



Countries between c. 1400 and 1550. This catalogue is available at no costs in e-format ( HERE ) and can also be purchased as a printed hardcover book ( HERE ).