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Enclosed gardens of Mechelen : late medieval paradise gardens revealed
- Title
- Enclosed gardens of Mechelen : late medieval paradise gardens revealed / Lieve Watteeuw & Hannah Iterbeke (eds.) ; translations, Guy Shipton, Helen Simpson.
- Author
- Symposium for the Study of Underdrawing and Technology in Painting (20th : 2017 : Mechelen, Belgium), author.
- Publication
- [Lichtervelde] : Hannibal ; Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, [2018]
- ©2018
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- Description
- 287 pages : illustrations (chiefly color); 30 cm
- Summary
- The Late Middle Ages saw the emergence in the Low Countries of a unique form of religious art that employed a diverse range of artefacts and memorabilia: Enclosed Gardens. These unique mixed-media objects represent an idealized spiritual and paradisiacal world. Aside from polychrome statuettes (poupées de Malines), the Gardens include silk flowers, metal pilgrim badges, wax medallions, relics, alabaster artefacts, parchment, paper and pipe clay. Finishing decorative touches include sequins, pearls and beads made of glass, bone coral and amber. In their entirety, each one is an extraordinary journey through a 'garden' of the imagination that can be opened or closed up with painted panels. The sixteenth-century Enclosed Gardens of Mechelen enjoy international recognition as unique creations and masterpieces. They are a special mixture of devotion, spirituality and artisan innovation. This precious collection is held at the Museum Hof van Busleyden in Mechelen. This book not only brings together knowledge about the Gardens' content and visual language, but also focuses attention on their particular physical features. Close-up photographs show artefacts never previously observed and help unravel our understanding of these historic mixedmedia works of art. This first complete overview of the Mechelen Enclosed Gardens is the result of years of international academic research.
- Uniform Title
- De besloten hofjes van Mechelen. English
- Alternative Title
- De besloten hofjes van Mechelen.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Conference papers and proceedings.
- Note
- Papers originally presented at the 20th Symposium for the Study of Underdrawing and Technology in Painting "Imagining Utopia: New Perspectives on Northern Renaissance Art" organized by Illuminare - Centre for the Study of Medieval Art and held in Mechelen, Belgium and Louvain, Belgium, January 11-13, 2017.
- "This book has been published to mark the completion of the Enclosed Gardens project undertaken by the Museum Hof van Busleyden (Mechelen) and the KU Leuven, Illuminare - Centre for the Study of Medieval Art (2014-18)"--Colophon.
- Also issued in a Dutch version as: De besloten hofjes van Mechelen : laatmiddeleeuwse paradijstuinen ontrafeld.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 274-279) and index.
- Language (note)
- Translated from the Dutch.
- Call Number
- JQF 21-654
- ISBN
- 9789463720724
- 9463720723
- 9789492677679
- 9492677679
- OCLC
- 1080076994
- Conference
- Symposium for the Study of Underdrawing and Technology in Painting (20th : 2017 : Mechelen, Belgium), author.
- Title
- Enclosed gardens of Mechelen : late medieval paradise gardens revealed / Lieve Watteeuw & Hannah Iterbeke (eds.) ; translations, Guy Shipton, Helen Simpson.
- Publisher
- [Lichtervelde] : Hannibal ; Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, [2018]
- Copyright Date
- ©2018
- Type of Content
- textstill image
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 274-279) and index.
- Language
- Translated from the Dutch.
- Added Author
- Watteeuw, Lieve, 1959- editor.Iterbeke, Hannah, editor.Shipton, Guy, translator.Simpson, Helen, translator.Illuminare--Centre for the Study of Medieval Art, organizer.
- Research Call Number
- JQF 21-654