Pious Memories

The Wall-Mounted Memorial in the Burgundian Netherlands
Erscheinungsjahr 2015
ISBN: 978-90-04-28832-4
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 13, 322 Seiten, Format (B × H): 180 mm x 249 mm, Gewicht: 1043 g

Reihe: Studies in Netherlandish Art and Cultural History

Wall-mounted memorials (or ‘epitaphs’) enjoyed great popularity across the Burgundian Netherlands. Usually installed in churches above graves, they combine images with inscriptions and take the form of sculpted reliefs, brass plaques, or panel paintings. They preserved the memory of the dead and reminded the living to pray for their souls. On occasions, renowned artists like Jan van Eyck and Rogier van der Weyden were closely involved in memorials’ creation.

In Pious Memories Douglas Brine examines the wall-mounted memorial as a distinct category of funerary monument and shows it to be a significant, if overlooked, aspect of fifteenth-century Netherlandish art. The patronage, functions, and meanings of these objects are considered in the context of contemporary commemorative practices and the culture of memoria.

Brine received the 2015 Arthur Kingsley Porter Prize, for an earlier version of Chapter 5 of Pious Memories, his article, “Jan van Eyck, Canon Joris van der Paele, and the Art of Commemoration,” published in the September 2014 issue of The Art Bulletin.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Brine, Douglas

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunststile Christliche Kunst
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunstgeschichte Kunstgeschichte: Renaissance, Manierismus
• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Christentum/Christliche Theologie Allgemein Christliche Kunst und Kultur
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunstformen, Kunsthandwerk Bildhauerei, Plastik, Denkmäler

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Contents

Acknowledgements ix
List of Figures xii

1 Introduction: The Wall-Mounted Memorial in the Burgundian Netherlands 1

2 Two Memorials to Two Seigneurs: Bauduin and Thierry de Hénin-Liétard 57

3 Commemorating the Canons of Saint-Omer 91

4 Commemorating the Canonesses of Nivelles 129

5 Jan van Eyck and the Virgin of Canon Joris van der Paele 179

6 Epilogue: The Wall-Mounted Memorial’s Sixteenth-Century Legacy 209

Appendix 229
Notes 245
Bibliography 273
Index 309

Über Autor(innen)

Douglas Brine, Ph.D. (2006), Courtauld Institute, teaches at Trinity University, San Antonio (Texas). He has held fellowships at the Courtauld Institute and the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts, and has published several articles on early Netherlandish art.