Agency, Visuality and Society at the Chartreuse de Champmol
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altarpiece
art historical methodology
Author_Sherry C.M. Lindquist
Author_SherryC.M. Lindquist
Burgundian court culture
carthusian
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claus
couple
cross
crucifixion
ducal
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funerary monuments
great
late medieval sculpture
monks
reception theory
religious patronage
sluter
social power dynamics in medieval art
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- ISBN 9780754660460
- Weight: 690g
- Dimensions: 174 x 246mm
- Publication Date: 14 Mar 2008
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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Grounded in archival sources, this interdisciplinary study explores the profound historical significance of the mausoleum of the Valois Dukes of Burgundy - the Chartreuse de Champmol. Although the monument is well known as the site of pivotal works of art by Claus Sluter, Melchior Broederlam, Jean de Beaumetz and others, until now art historians have not considered how these works functioned at the center of a complex social matrix. Sherry Lindquist here considers the sacred subjects of the various sculptures and paintings not merely as devotional tools or theological statements, but as profoundly influential social instruments that negotiated complex interactions of power. Lindquist's sophisticated discussion coordinates analysis of primary sources with the most up-to-date scholarship in the field of art history, not only with respect to late medieval Burgundian art, but also to more theoretical questions pertaining to reception.
Sherry C.M. Lindquist is Professor of Art History at Western Illinois University. She is the author of Agency, Visuality and Society at the Chartreuse de Champmol (2008), and editor of Meanings of Nudity in Medieval Art (2012).
