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Gardens of love and the limits of morality in early Netherlandish art
- Title
- Gardens of love and the limits of morality in early Netherlandish art / by Andrea Pearson.
- Author
- Pearson, Andrea G.
- Publication
- Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2019]
- ©2019
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Details
- Description
- xxii, 356 pages : illustrations (chiefly color); 24 cm.
- Summary
- "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"--
- Series Statement
- Brill's studies in intellectual history, 0920-8607 ; volume 296
- Brill's studies on art, art history, and intellectual history ; volume 37
- Uniform Title
- Brill's studies in intellectual history ; v. 296.
- Brill's studies in intellectual history. Brill's studies on art, art history, and intellectual history ; v. 37.
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 317-346) and index.
- Contents
- Introduction : the erotics of virtue -- Moralized love -- Disability and redemption -- Monastic morality -- Holy matrimony -- Infancy moralized -- Kissing kids -- Epilogue : the limits of mother-son eroticism.
- Call Number
- JQE 19-571
- ISBN
- 9789004392953
- 9004392955
- 9789004393103 (canceled/invalid)
- LCCN
- 2018059470
- OCLC
- 1066181983
- Author
- Pearson, Andrea G., author.
- Title
- Gardens of love and the limits of morality in early Netherlandish art / by Andrea Pearson.
- Publisher
- Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2019]
- Copyright Date
- ©2019
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Series
- Brill's studies in intellectual history, 0920-8607 ; volume 296Brill's studies on art, art history, and intellectual history ; volume 37Brill's studies in intellectual history ; v. 296.Brill's studies in intellectual history. Brill's studies on art, art history, and intellectual history ; v. 37.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 317-346) and index.
- Other Form:
- Online version: Pearson, Andrea G., author. Gardens of love and the limits of morality in early Netherlandish art Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2019] 9789004393103 (DLC) 2019000904
- Research Call Number
- JQE 19-571