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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Falque, Ingrid, author.

Series:

Brill's studies in intellectual history ; 299.

Brill's studies in intellectual history, 0920-8607 ; Volume 299

Brill's studies on art, art history, and intellectual history ; Volume 38

Standardized Title:

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

Language:

English

French

Subjects (All):

Portrait painting, Netherlandish.

Portrait painting, Netherlandish--Catalogs.

Christian art and symbolism--Benelux countries--Medieval, 500-1500.

Christian art and symbolism.

Christian art and symbolism--Benelux countries--Renaissance, 1450-1600.

Devotion in art.

Christian art and symbolism--Medieval.

Christian art and symbolism--Renaissance.

Benelux countries.

Genre:

Catalogs.

Physical Description:

2 volumes : illustrations ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2019.

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.00By 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.

Contents:

[Vol. 1]. 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.

[Vol. 2]. Introduction to the Catalogue

Catalogue of early Netherlandish paintings with devotional portraits (1400-1550).

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Falque, Ingrid, author. Devotional portraiture and spiritual experience in early Netherlandish painting

ISBN:

9789004369757

9004369759

OCLC:

1089278324