Research Catalog

Title

Devotional portraiture and spiritual experience in early Netherlandish painting / by Ingrid Falque.

Author

Falque, Ingrid,

Publication

• Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2019]
• ©2019

Supplementary Content

1850-9999

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Details

Description

xxi, 310 pages : illustrations; 25 cm

Summary

"In Devotional Portraiture and Spiritual Experience Ingrid Falque analyses the meditative functions of early Netherlandish paintings including devotional portraits, that is portraits of people kneeling in prayer. Such paintings have been mainly studied in the context of commemorative and social practices, but as Ingrid Falque shows, they also served as devotional instruments. By drawing parallels between the visual strategies of these paintings and texts of the major spiritual writers of the medieval Low Countries, she demonstrates that paintings with devotional portraits functioned as a visualisation of the spiritual process of the sitters. The books is accompanied by the first exhaustive catalogue of paintings with devotional portraits produced in the Low Countries between c. 1400 and 1550."--Back cover.

Series Statement

• Brill's studies in intellectual history, 0920-8607 ; Volume 299
• Brill's studies on art, art history, and intellectual history ; Volume 38

Uniform Title

• Brill's studies in intellectual history ; 299.
• Portraits de dévots, pratiques religieuses et expérience spirituelle dans la peinture des anciens Pays-Bas (1400-1550). English

Alternative Title

Portraits de dévots, pratiques religieuses et expérience spirituelle dans la peinture des anciens Pays-Bas (1400-1550).

Subject

• 21.02 history of painting
• 500-1600
• Benelux countries
• Christian art and symbolism > Benelux countries > Medieval, 500-1500
• Christian art and symbolism > Benelux countries > Renaissance, 1450-1600
• Christian art and symbolism > Medieval
• Christian art and symbolism > Renaissance
• Christliche Kunst
• Devotion in art
• Niederlande
• Portrait painting, Netherlandish
• Religiöse Erfahrung

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 277-300) and index.

Terms of Use (note)

• Current copyright fee: GBP22.00

Contents

Ora pro me : the forms and locations of devotional portraits in early Netherlandish painting -- From the outside to the inside : the location of portraits within the physical spaces of the work -- Devotional portraits, 'levels of reality' and the structure of the pictorial space(s) -- Via ad deum : devotional portraiture and the spiritual journey -- Spiritual progress and the meditative process in the medieval religious tradition -- The devotee on the path -- The goal of the spiritual journey and the status of the sacred space -- Entering the sacred space, a dynamic device -- Two other ways of visualising the meditative process -- Asceniones in corde disposuit : devotional portraiture and the spiritual ascent -- Mise en mots and mise en image of the spiritual ascent in the medieval spiritual tradition -- The theme of the spiritual ascent in devotional literature of the low countries in the late middle ages -- Mise en image of the spiritual ascent in early Netherlandish painting -- Petrus Christus' exeter madonna, an emblematic case of spiritual ascent -- The diptych of lodovico portinari and the visualisation of the meditative process -- Eene vergaderinghe van twee personen die comen van diverschen staden : devotional portraiture, union with God and spiritual perfection -- The outcome of the contemplative process : spiritual perfection, union with God and the Ghemeine leven -- Devotional portraiture and the visualisation of spiritual perfection -- The van der burch triptych of Jan Provoost, and exemplary image of spiritual perfection -- In spiritualem quandam armoniam : devotional portraiture and the role of images in the meditative process -- The place of images in late medieval meditative theory and practices -- Geert Grote's tractatus de quattuor generibus meditabilium the ghemeine leven and the status of images.

ISBN

• 9789004409729
• 9004409726
• 9789004397606 (canceled/invalid)
• 9789004409736 (canceled/invalid)
• 9789004409743 (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

2019005705

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries