Author

Publication

2019 - BRILL

Language

English

Word Count

77,500 words, Guess

Page Count

310 pages

Identifiers

  • ISBN-139789004369757
  • ISBN-109004369759
  • Library of Congress Control Number2019005705
  • OCLC Control Number1089278324
  • Better World Books9789004369757
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Classifications

  • LCCND1319.F35 2019
  • LCCND1319 .F35 2019

Description

"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.

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