Research Catalog

Title

The Charterhouse of Bruges : Jan van Eyck, Petrus Christus, and Jan Vos / Emma Capron with Maryan Ainsworth, Till-Holger Borchert.

Author

Capron, Emma

Publication

• New York : The Frick Collection ; London : D Giles Limited, [2018]
• ©2018

Items in the Library & Off-site

Details

Additional Authors

• Ainsworth, Maryan W.
• Borchert, Till
• Eyck, Jan van, 1390-1440.
• Christus, Petrus, approximately 1410-1472 or 1473.
• Frick Collection, issuing body, host institution

Description

160 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), facsimiles (chiefly color), map; 27 cm

Summary

• "At the heart of the exhibition is the reunion--for the first time in more than twenty years and the second time in their history--of the Exeter Madonna and the Frick Virgin, Jan Vos's two surviving commissions. Complementing them will be a selection of objects that place them in their rich context. Leaving questions of attribution aside, the exhibition will focus on the works' patronage, function, reception, and spiritual environment."
• "This book celebrates the reunion-- for the first time in twenty-four years and only the second time in their history--of two masterpieces of early Netherlandish painting commissioned by the Carthusian monk Jan Vos during his tenure as prior of the Charterhouse of Bruges in the 1440s: The Frick Collection's Virgin and Child with St. Barbara, St. Elizabeth, and Jan Vos, commissioned from Jan van Eyck and completed by his workshop; and the Gemäldegalerie's Virgin and Child with St. Barbara and Jan Vos, painted by Petrus Christus. These panels are examined with a selection of objects that place them for the first time in the rich Carthusian context for which they were created. Drawing on recent technical examination and new archival research, this volume explores the panels' creation, patronage, and function in their rich Carthusian context. The Carthusian order was one of the most austere strands of late medieval monasticism. In apparent contradiction to this asceticism, Carthusian monasteries became remarkable repositories of art, a material accumulation often attributed to lay patronage. However this explanation overlooks the ways in which the Carthusians themselves commissioned and used images for their daily devotions and liturgy, as well as their commemoration. The story of Jan Vos and his patronage of Jan van Eyck and Petrus Christus fundamentally informs our understanding of the role played by images in shaping monastic life and funerary strategies in late medieval Europe."--Front Jacket Flap.

Alternative Title

Jan van Eyck, Petrus Christus, and Jan vos

Subject

• Eyck, Jan van, 1390-1440. > Exhibitions
• Christus, Petrus, approximately 1410-1472 or 1473. > Exhibitions
• Vos, Jan, -1462 > Art patronage > Exhibitions
• Netherlandish Boxwood Prayer Bead: Prayer Nut Made for François Du Puy
• 500-1500
• Art patronage > Belgium > Bruges > History > 15th century > Exhibitions
• Painting, Flemish > Belgium > Bruges > 15th century > Exhibitions
• Christian art and symbolism > Belgium > Bruges > Medieval, 500-1500 > Exhibitions
• Art patronage
• Christian art and symbolism > Medieval
• Painting, Flemish
• Belgium > Bruges

Genre/Form

• Exhibition catalogs.
• History.

Note

• "This catalogue is published in conjunction with the exhibition The Charterhouse of Bruges: Jan Van Eyck, Petrus Christus, and Jan Vos on view at The Frick Collection from September 18, 2018, to January 13, 2019"--Title page verso.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 147-157) and index.

Contents

Director's Foreword -- Paintings, prayers, and salvation: the Jan Vos Virgins in context / by Emma Capron -- Attribution mysteries of the Virgin and Child with St. Barbara, St. Elizabeth, and Jan Vos / by Maryan W. Ainsworth -- Being there: Jan van Eyck and Petrus Christus in Bruges / by Till-Holger Borchert -- Collecting Jan van Eyck from Europe to America / by Emma Capron -- Checklist of the exhibition -- Appendices -- Bibliography -- Index -- Photo Credits.

Call Number

JQF 18-2071

ISBN

• 9781911282198
• 1911282190
• 9780912114729
• 091211472X

LCCN

2018000150

OCLC

1020293807

Author

Capron, Emma, author.

Title

The Charterhouse of Bruges : Jan van Eyck, Petrus Christus, and Jan Vos / Emma Capron with Maryan Ainsworth, Till-Holger Borchert.

Publisher

New York : The Frick Collection ; London : D Giles Limited, [2018]

Copyright Date

©2018

Edition

First edition.

Type of Content

text

still image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 147-157) and index.

Chronological Term

500-1500

Added Author

Ainsworth, Maryan W., author.

Borchert, Till, author.

Eyck, Jan van, 1390-1440. Paintings. Selections.

Christus, Petrus, approximately 1410-1472 or 1473. Paintings. Selections.

Frick Collection, issuing body, host institution.

Research Call Number

JQF 18-2071