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Essays in context : unfolding the Netherlandish diptych
Title
Essays in context : unfolding the Netherlandish diptych / edited by John Oliver Hand and Ron Spronk.
ISBN
0300247958
9780300247954
0300121407
9780300121407
Publication
Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Art Museums ; New Haven : Yale University Press, [2006]
Copyright Notice Date
©2006
Physical Description
1 online resource (255 pages) : 75 illustrations (some color)
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Summary
"Published to accompany Prayers and Portraits ..., this book features essays by leading scholars that explore a wide range of topics relating to 15th- and 16th-century Netherlandish diptychs. The text addresses the practical and social uses of the diptych, the history and origins of the format, and the philosophical issues related to the practice of researching these diptychs. It also analyzes the devotional function of these works in the context of contemporary texts and religious practices in northern Europe"--Publisher's description.
Variant and related titles
Unfolding the Netherlandish diptych
Other formats
Print version: Essays in context. Cambridge : Harvard University Art Museums ; New Haven : Yale University Press, ©2006
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
March 21, 2022
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Partial contents
Director's foreword / Thomas W. Lentz
Preface and acknowledgments / John Oliver Hand and Ron Spronk
Diptychs and supplicants: precedents and contexts of fifteenth-century devotional diptych / Victor M. Schmidt
Diptychs with portraits / Lorne Campbell
The devotional portrait diptych and the manuscript tradition / Laura D. Gelfand
Early Netherlandish diptychs as surrogate luxuries / Marina Belozerskaya
The context of Jan van Eyck's approach to the Thyssen Annunciation diptych / Carol J. Purtle
Some reflections on the social function of diptychs / Maximiliaan P.J. Martens
Hans memling's Van Nieuwenhove diptych: the place of prayer in early Netherlandish devotional painting / Reindert L. Falkenburg
Hinging past and present: diptych variants of Jan van Eyck's Virgin in the church / Yvonne Yiu
Diptychs altarpieces and the principle of dextrality / Hugo van der Velden
Diptychs with instructions for use / Hélène Verougstraete
Innovation, reconstruction, and deconstruction: early Netherlandish diptychs in the mirror of their reception / Till-Holger Borchert
Diptychs- what's the point? / Ivan Gaskell
Unfolding the Netherlandish diptych: dendrochronological analyses / Peter Klein.
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