Gardens of love and the limits of morality in early Netherlandish art /

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Author / Creator:	Pearson, Andrea G., author.
Imprint:	Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2019]
Description:	1 online resource
Language:	English
Series:	Brill's studies in intellectual history, 0920-8607 ; volume 296 Brill's studies on art, art history, and intellectual history ; volume 37 Brill's studies in intellectual history. Brill's studies on art, art history, and intellectual history ; v. 296-37.
Subject:	Human figure in art. Art, Netherlandish. Art and morals -- Benelux countries. Arts and religion -- Benelux countries. Art and morals. Art, Netherlandish. Arts and religion. Human figure in art. Benelux countries.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12648441

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ISBN:	9004393102 9789004393103 9789004392953
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index. Print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed.
Summary:	"In Gardens of Love and the Limits of Morality in Early Netherlandish Art, Andrea Pearson charts the moralization of human bodies in late medieval and early modern visual culture, through paintings by Jan van Eyck and Hieronymus Bosch, devotional prints and illustrated books, and the celebrated enclosed gardens of Mechelen among other works. Drawing on new archival evidence and innovative visual analysis to reframe familiar religious discourses, she demonstrates that depicted topographies advanced and sometimes resisted bodily critiques expressed in scripture, conduct literature, and even legislation. Governing many of these redemptive greenscapes were the figures of Christ and the Virgin Mary, archetypes of purity whose spiritual authority was impossible to ignore, yet whose mysteries posed innumerable moral challenges. The study reveals that bodily status was the fundamental problem of human salvation, in which artists, patrons, and viewers alike had an interpretive stake"--
Other form:	Print version: Pearson, Andrea G. Gardens of love and the limits of morality in early Netherlandish art. Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2019] 9789004392953
Standard no.:	10.1163/9789004393103

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