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Subject(s)

• Art, Netherlandish—Themes, motives [Browse]
• Sepulchral monuments, Gothic—Benelux countries [Browse]
• Memorialization—Benelux countries—History—To 1500 [Browse]
• Memorialization—Benelux countries—History—16th century [Browse]
• Church decoration and ornament—Benelux countries—History—To 1500 [Browse]
• Church decoration and ornament—Benelux countries—History—16th century [Browse]

Series

• Studies in Netherlandish art and cultural history ; Volume 13. [More in this series]
• Studies in Netherlandish Art and Cultural History, 1872-5532 ; Volume 13

Summary note

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 .

Notes

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.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Source of description

Description based on print version record.

Contents

• Preliminary Material
• 1 Introduction: The Wall-Mounted Memorial in the Burgundian Netherlands / Given-Name Brine
• 2 Two Memorials to Two Seigneurs: Bauduin and Thierry de Hénin-Liétard / Given-Name Brine
• 3 Commemorating the Canons of Saint-Omer / Given-Name Brine
• 4 Commemorating the Canonesses of Nivelles / Given-Name Brine
• 5 Jan van Eyck and the Virgin of Canon Joris van der Paele / Given-Name Brine
• 6 Epilogue: The Wall-Mounted Memorial’s Sixteenth-Century Legacy / Given-Name Brine
• Appendix
• Notes
• Bibliography
• Index.

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ISBN

90-04-28834-1

OCLC

893452222

Doi

• 10.1163/9789004288348

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