Envisioning Gender in Burgundian Devotional Art, 1350–1530
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Author_Andrea Pearson
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Burgundian Court
Burgundian Dukes
Burgundian Netherlands
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Chartreuse De Champmol
Christ Child
Cistercian Convent
De Hondt
Devotional Portrait Diptych
diptych
Diptych Format
Domine Labia Mea Aperies
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Erard De La Marck
gendered devotional practices analysis
iconography of masculinity
Koninklijk Museum Voor Schone Kunsten
Les Dunes
medieval gender roles
Michael Sittow
monastic communities research
Mont Cornillon
Museum Voor Schone Kunsten
Netherlandish religious imagery
Obsecro Te
Ostentatio Genitalium
patronage in sacred art
portrait
Rogier Van Der Weyden
Royale De Belgique
Southern Low Countries
Van Nieuwenhove
Van Orley
visual culture studies
Younger Men
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- ISBN 9781138274358
- Weight: 490g
- Dimensions: 153 x 219mm
- Publication Date: 31 Mar 2017
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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Illuminated here are the relationships between visual culture, faith, and gender in the courtly, monastic, and urban spheres of the early modern Burgundian Netherlands. By examining works by artists such as the Master of Mary of Burgundy, Jan van Eyck, Hans Memling, and Bernard van Orley, author Andrea Pearson identifies and explores pictorial constructions of masculinity and femininity in regard to the expectations, experiences, and practices of devotion. Specifically, she demonstrates that two of the most prominent visual genres of the period, books of hours and devotional portrait diptychs, were manipulated by patrons and spectators of both sexes to challenge and negotiate the boundaries and hierarchies of gender, and that marginalized individuals and groups appropriated the types to resist the authority of others and advance their own. Ultimately, the books and diptychs emerge as critical and often contentious sites for deliberating and transacting gender. By integrating books of hours and devotional portrait diptychs into current interdisciplinary theoretical discourse on gender, power and devotion, the author engages scholars in a range of disciplines: art history, history, religion and literature, as well as women's and men's studies.
Andrea Pearson is a specialist in the visual culture of northern Europe from the fourteenth through the sixteenth centuries, she has published on gender and devotional art in Gesta, Renaissance Quarterly, Woman's Art Journal, and the Sixteenth Century Journal.
