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Late medieval enclosed gardens of the Low Countries : contributions to gender and artistic expression

Title
Late medieval enclosed gardens of the Low Countries : contributions to gender and artistic expression / Barbara Baert.
Author
Baert, Barbara
Publication
Leuven : Peeters, 2016.

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Description
110 pages : illustrations (chiefly color); 24 cm
Summary
During the Late Middle Ages a unique type of 'mixed media' recycled and remnant art arose in houses of religious women in the Low Countries: Enclosed Gardens. These are retables, sometimes with painted side panels, the central section filled not only with narrative sculpture, but also with all sorts of trinkets and hand-worked textiles. Adornments include relics, wax medallions, gemstones set in silver, pilgrimage souvenirs, parchment banderoles, flowers made from textiles with silk thread, semi-precious stones, pearls and quilling (a decorative technique using rolled paper). The ensemble is an impressive and one-of-a-kind display and presents as an intoxicating garden. In this essay the exceptional heritage of such Enclosed Gardens is interpreted from a range of approaches. The Enclosed Garden is studied as a symbol of paradise and mystical union, as the sanctuary of interiority, as the sublimation of the sensorium (in particular the sense of smell), as a typical gendered product, and as a centre of psycho-energetic creative processes.--Back cover.
Series Statement
Studies in iconology ; 2
Uniform Title
Studies in iconology ; 2.
Subject
  • Altarpieces > Benelux countries
  • Altarpieces > Belgium > Mechelen
  • Art > Benelux countries > Themes, motives
  • Christian art and symbolism > Benelux countries
  • Sex role in art
  • Nature in art
  • Paradise in art
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (pages 89-95) and index.
Call Number
JQE 17-651
ISBN
  • 9789042932333
  • 9042932333
LCCN
2016434485
OCLC
946011451
Author
Baert, Barbara, author.
Title
Late medieval enclosed gardens of the Low Countries : contributions to gender and artistic expression / Barbara Baert.
Publisher
Leuven : Peeters, 2016.
Type of Content
text
still image
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Series
Studies in iconology ; 2
Studies in iconology ; 2.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 89-95) and index.
Research Call Number
JQE 17-651
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