Research Catalog

Title

Thresholds and boundaries : liminality in Netherlandish art (1385-1530) / Lynn F. Jacobs.

Author

Jacobs, Lynn F., 1955-

Publication

London ; New York : Routledge, [2018]

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Details

Description

xiii, 231, 8 unnumbered pages : illustrations (some color); 26 cm

Summary

Although liminality has been studied by scholars of medieval and seventeenth-century art, the role of the threshold motif in Netherlandish art of the late fourteenth, fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries -- this late medieval/early 'early modern' period -- has been much less fully investigated. 'Thresholds and Boundaries: Liminality in Netherlandish Art (1385-1550)' addresses this issue through a focus on key case studies (Sluter's portal of the Chartreuse de Champmol and the calendar pages of the Limbourg Brothers' Tres Riches Heures), and on important formats (altarpieces and illuminated manuscripts). Lynn F. Jacobs examines how the visual thresholds established within Netherlandish paintings, sculptures, and manuscript illuminations become sites where artists could address relations between life and death, aristocrat and peasant, holy and profane, and man and God-and where artists could exploit the 'betwixt and between' nature of the threshold to communicate, paradoxically, both connections and divisions between these different states and different worlds.

Series Statement

Visual Culture in Early Modernity

Uniform Title

Visual culture in early modernity.

Alternative Title

Liminality in Netherlandish art (1385-1530)

Subject

• Art, Netherlandish > Themes, motives
• Liminality > In art
• Rites and ceremonies in art

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 215-224) and index.

Contents

Liminality, thresholds and boundaries -- Case Studies: The threshold of death: Sluter's portal of the Chartreuse de Champmol -- The boundary of class: the calendar of the Très Riches Heures -- Studies in format: The thresholds of manuscript illuminations -- The thresholds of altarpieces -- Coda: Liminality in Dutch seventeenth-century painting.

Call Number

JQF 18-226

ISBN

• 9781472457813
• 1472457811

OCLC

990544335

Author

Jacobs, Lynn F., 1955- author.

Title

Thresholds and boundaries : liminality in Netherlandish art (1385-1530) / Lynn F. Jacobs.

Publisher

London ; New York : Routledge, [2018]

Type of Content

text

still image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Visual Culture in Early Modernity

Visual culture in early modernity.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 215-224) and index.

Research Call Number

JQF 18-226