Devotional portraiture and spiritual experience in early Netherlandish painting

• • Is type of work 

    Books

By

• • Has maker 

    Falque, Ingrid

Publisher

• Publication

  Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2019

• Year

  • Publication year 

    2019

Is about

• Subject

  • As subject 

    schilderkunst
  • As subject 

    religieuze schilderkunst
  • As subject 

    sacrale portretten
  • As subject 

    vroomheid

• Period

  1400-1550

Type

• Language

  • Has publication language 

    English

• Translated from

  • Is translated from 

    French

Classification

• ISBN

  9789004369757

Annotations / title notes

• Notes

  • The book is accompanied by a catalogue of early Netherlandish paintings with devotional portraits, available online on the website of https://brill.com/view/title/5 5786?rskey=vU4If4&result=5
  • 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 (in a e-format)
  • Revised and translated version of a PhD dissertation, Université de Liège 2009

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