Thresholds and Boundaries - Liminality in Netherlandish Art (1385-1530)

List of contents

Table of Contents
Part I: Introduction
1. Liminality, Thresholds and Boundaries
Part II: Case Studies
2. The Threshold of Death: Sluter’s Portal of the Chartreuse de Champmol
3. The Boundary of Class: The Calendar of the Très Riches Heures
Part III: Studies in Format
4. The Thresholds of Manuscript Illuminations
5. The Thresholds of Altarpieces
Part IV: Coda
6. Liminality in Dutch Seventeenth-Century Painting
Bibliography

About the author

Lynn F. Jacobs is Distinguished Professor of Art History at the University of Arkansas. Her previous publications have included two books --　Early Netherlandish Carved Altarpieces: Medieval Tastes and Mass Marketing　and Opening Doors: The Early Netherlandish Triptych Reinterpreted --　as well as articles in　Art Bulletin,　The Sixteenth Century Journal,　Jaarboek Koninklijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten Antwerpen,　Zeitschrift für Kunstgeschichte　and elsewhere. In 1990 her　Art Bulletin　article was awarded the Arthur Kingsley Porter Prize by the College Art Association.

Summary

Building on literary and anthropological interpretations of liminality, this book demonstrates how the exploration of boundaries in Netherlandish art served to infuse the works with greater meaning.

Product details

• Authors: Lynn F. Jacobs
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 02.10.2017
• EAN: 9781472457813
• ISBN: 978-1-4724-5781-3
• No. of pages: 240
• Series: Visual Culture in Early Modernity; Visual Culture in Early Modernity
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Art history; European History, HISTORY / Europe / General, ART / History / General, ART / European, Netherlands, History of Art, History of art & design styles: c 1400 to c 1600, 15th century, c 1400 to c 1499, 16th century, c 1500 to c 1599