Collectors, Commissioners, Curators : Studies in Medieval Art for Stephen N. Fliegel.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gertsman, Elina.

Series:

Early Drama, Art, and Music Series

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (286 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

Collectors, Commissioners, Curators

Place of Publication:

Kalamazoo : Medieval Institute Publications, 2023.

Summary:

This volume celebrates the storied career of Stephen N. Fliegel, the former Robert Bergman Curator of Medieval Art at the Cleveland Museum of Art (CMA). Authors of these essays, all leading curators in their fields, offer insights into curatorial practices by highlighting key objects in some of the most important medieval collections in North America and Europe: Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Louvre, the British Museum, Victoria & Albert Museum, the Getty, the Groeningemuseum, The Morgan Library, Vienna's Kunsthistorisches Museum, and, of course, the CMA, offering perspectives on the histories of collecting and display, artistic identity, and patronage, with special foci on Burgundian art, acquisition histories, and objects in the CMA.

This volume celebrates the storied career of Stephen N. Fliegel, the former Robert Bergman Curator of Medieval Art at the Cleveland Museum of Art (CMA). Authors of these essays, all leading curators in their fields, offer insights into curatorial practices by highlighting key objects in some of the most important medieval collections in North America and Europe: Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Louvre, the British Museum, Victoria & Albert Museum, the Getty, the Groeningemuseum, The Morgan Library, Vienna?s Kunsthistorisches Museum, and, of course, the CMA, offering perspectives on the histories of collecting and display, artistic identity, and patronage, with special foci on Burgundian art, acquisition histories, and objects in the CMA.

Contents:

Intro

Acknowledgements

Contents

List of Illustrations

Preface

Part I: Curating Fragments: Itineraries / Reconstructions

Chapter 1 Saint Stephen in Stone

Chapter 2 An English Alabaster Altarpiece of Christ's Passion Reunited

Chapter 3 A Fugitive Parliament of Heaven Returns Home

Part II: Curating Burgundy: Artists / Patrons

Chapter 4 When Theory Influences the Gaze: On a Recently Restored Fifteenth-Century Burgundian Virgin from the Louvre

Chapter 5 "None touches it": The Library of Anthony of Burgundy

Chapter 6 The Ceremonial Armor for the Young Emperor Charles V in Vienna: The German Empire, Burgundy, and a Failed Plan for a Habsburg-Tudor Alliance

Part III: Curating Cleveland: Acquisitions / Display

Chapter 7 The Völs-Colonna Armor for Man and Horse in the Cleveland Museum of Art and Its Matching Shield in the Metropolitan Museum of Art

Chapter 8 In and Out of Fashion: Jan Crocq's Saint John the Baptist and Saint Catherine

Chapter 9 A Mosan Madonna in the Cleveland Museum of Art Reconsidered

Part IV: Curating Artists: Names / Attributions

Chapter 10 The Name of the Artist: Do Names Matter?

Chapter 11 The Case for Simon Marmion

Once Again

Chapter 12 The Workshop of Van Eyck, the Master of Covarrubias and the Master of the Simpson Carson Madonna

Curriculum vitae of Stephen N. Fliegel

Notes on Contributors

Notes:

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Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9781501514845

1501514849

OCLC:

1376933721