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Author Brine, Douglas, author.

Title Pious memories : the wall-mounted memorial in the Burgundian Netherlands / by Douglas Brine.

Publication Info. Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2015.

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Description 1 online resource (xix, 322 pages) : illustrations.
Physical Medium polychrome
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Series Studies in Netherlandish art and cultural history ; volume 13
Studies in Netherlandish art and cultural history ; volume 13.
Note Outgrowth of the author's thesis (Courtauld Institute of Art, 2006) under the title: Piety and purgatory : wall-mounted memorials from the southern Netherlands, c. 1380-1520.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Introduction : The Wall-Mounted Memorial in the Burgundian Netherlands -- Two Memorials to Two Seigneurs : Bauduin and Thierry de Henin-Lietard -- Commemorating the Canons of Saint-Omer -- Commemorating the Canonesses of Nivelles -- Jan van Eyck and the Virgin of Canon Joris van der Paele -- Epilogue : The Wall-Mounted Memorial's Sixteenth-Century Legacy.
Summary 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 . For sample pages click on Google Books button. 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.
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Subject Art, Netherlandish -- Themes, motives.
Art, Netherlandish.
Themes, motives.
Sepulchral monuments, Gothic -- Benelux countries.
Sepulchral monuments, Gothic.
Benelux countries.
Memorialization -- Benelux countries -- History -- To 1500.
Memorialization.
History.
Chronological Term To 1500
Subject Memorialization -- Benelux countries -- History -- 16th century.
Chronological Term 16th century
Subject Church decoration and ornament -- Benelux countries -- History -- To 1500.
Church decoration and ornament.
Church decoration and ornament -- Benelux countries -- History -- 16th century.
Chronological Term To 1599
Genre/Form Electronic books.
History.
Other Form: Print version: Brine, Douglas. Pious memories 9789004288324 (DLC) 2015002020 (OCoLC)893452222
ISBN 9789004288348 (electronic book)
9004288341 (electronic book)
9789004288324 (hardback)
9004288325 (hardback)
Standard No. 10.1163/9789004288348