Late Medieval Enclosed Gardens of the Low Countries: Contributions to Gender and Artistic Expression: 2 (Studies in Iconology, 2) - Softcover

Baert, B.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 9042932333 ISBN 13: 9789042932333

Verlag: Peeters uitgeverij, 2016

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During the Late Middle Ages a unique type of 'mixed media' recycled and remnant art arose in houses of religious women in the Low Countries: Enclosed Gardens. These are retables, sometimes with painted side panels, the central section filled not only with narrative sculpture, but also with all sorts of trinkets and hand-worked textiles. Adornments include relics, wax medallions, gemstones set in silver, pilgrimage souvenirs, parchment banderoles, flowers made from textiles with silk thread, semi-precious stones, pearls and quilling (a decorative technique using rolled paper). The ensemble is an impressive and one-of-a-kind display and presents as an intoxicating garden. In this essay the exceptional heritage of such Enclosed Gardens is interpreted from a range of approaches. The Enclosed Garden is studied as a symbol of paradise and mystical union, as the sanctuary of interiority, as the sublimation of the sensorium (in particular the sense of smell), as a typical gendered product, and as a centre of psycho-energetic creative processes.

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• Verlag: Peeters uitgeverij
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2016
• ISBN 10: 9042932333
• ISBN 13: 9789042932333
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 111