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 book is accompanied by the first exhaustive catalogue of paintings with devotional portraits produced in the Low Countries between c. 1400 and 1550. This catalogue is available at no costs in e-format (HERE) and can also be purchased as a printed hardcover book (HERE).
Rezensionen / Stimmen
"With Falque's lucid description of the complex visual language of the paintings, this project will be appreciated by art historians already familiar with the pictorial conventions of the era but it will also serve as an effective lens for scholars in neighboring disciplines - especially those concerned with devotional literature - who seek to explore the participation of the visual arts in theological and devotional discourse."
Mitzi Kirkland-Ives, Missouri State University. In: HNA Reviews, April 2020.
"A monumental achievement."
Catherine Levesque, College of William and Mary. In: Renaissance Quarterly, Vol. 75, No. 1 (Spring 2022), pp. 213-216.
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Sprache
Verlagsort
Zielgruppe
Produkt-Hinweis
Fadenheftung
Gewebe-Einband
Maße
Höhe: 236 mm
Breite: 162 mm
Dicke: 20 mm
Gewicht
ISBN-13
978-90-04-36975-7 (9789004369757)
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Schweitzer Klassifikation
Ingrid Falque, Ph.D. (2009), Universite catholique de Louvain, is Research Associate of the F.R.S.-FNRS. She is an art historian and has published numerous articles on the various relationships between late medieval images and spirituality in journals (e.g. Speculum, Revue d'histoire ecclesiastique) and edited volumes.
Acknowledgements
List of Figures and Graph
Abbreviations
Note to the Reader
Introduction
1 Ora pro me: The Forms and Locations of Devotional Portraits in Early Netherlandish Painting
?1?From the Outside to the Inside: The Location of Portraits within the Physical Spaces of the Work
2 Via ad Deum: Devotional Portraiture and the Spiritual Journey
?1?Spiritual Progress and the Meditative Process in the Medieval Religious Tradition
?2?The Devotee on the Path
?3?The Goal of the Spiritual Journey and the Status of the Sacred Space
3 Ascensiones in corde disposuit: Devotional Portraiture and Spiritual Ascent
?1?Mise en Mots and Mise en Image of the Spiritual Ascent in the Medieval Spiritual Tradition
?2?The Theme of the Spiritual Ascent in Devotional Literature of the Low Countries in the Late Middle Ages
?3?Mise en Image of the Spiritual Ascent in Early Netherlandish Painting
?4?Petrus Christus' Exeter Madonna, an Emblematic Case of Spiritual Ascent
?5?The Diptych of Lodovico Portinari and the Visualisation of the Meditative Process
4 Eene vergaderinghe van twee personen die comen van diverschen staden: Devotional Portraiture, Union with God and Spiritual Perfection
?1?The Outcome of the Contemplative Process: Spiritual Perfection, Union with God and the Ghemeine Leven
?2?Devotional Portraiture and the Visualisation of Spiritual Perfection
?3?The Van der Burch Triptych of Jan Provoost, an Exemplary Image of Spiritual Perfection
5 In spiritualem quandam armoniam: Devotional Portraiture and the Role of Images in the Meditative Process
?1?The Place of Images in Late Medieval Meditative Theory and Practices
?2?Geert Grote's Tractatus de Quattuor Generibus Meditabilium, the Ghemeine Leven and the Status of Images
Conclusions
Bibliography
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