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This is the first exhaustive catalogue of paintings with devotional portraits produced in the Low Countries between c. 1400 and 1550. This printed catalogue is an appendix to the book Devotional Portraiture and Spiritual Experience in Early Netherlandish Painting. The catalogue is 952 pages in size (hardcover, full-color).

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Author:   Ingrid Falque
Publisher:   Brill
Imprint:   Brill
Volume:   299/38
Weight:   1.328kg
ISBN:  

9789004409729

ISBN 10:   9004409726
Pages:   660
Publication Date:   26 September 2019
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Acknowledgements List of Figures and Graph Abbreviations Note to the Reader Introduction 1 Ora pro me: The Forms and Locations of Devotional Portraits in Early Netherlandish Painting  1 From the Outside to the Inside: The Location of Portraits within the Physical Spaces of the Work 2 Via ad Deum: Devotional Portraiture and the Spiritual Journey  1 Spiritual Progress and the Meditative Process in the Medieval Religious Tradition  2 The Devotee on the Path  3 The Goal of the Spiritual Journey and the Status of the Sacred Space 3 Ascensiones in corde disposuit: Devotional Portraiture and Spiritual Ascent  1 Mise en Mots and Mise en Image of the Spiritual Ascent in the Medieval Spiritual Tradition  2 The Theme of the Spiritual Ascent in Devotional Literature of the Low Countries in the Late Middle Ages  3 Mise en Image of the Spiritual Ascent in Early Netherlandish Painting  4 Petrus Christus’ Exeter Madonna, an Emblematic Case of Spiritual Ascent  5 The Diptych of Lodovico Portinari and the Visualisation of the Meditative Process 4 Eene vergaderinghe van twee personen die comen van diverschen staden: Devotional Portraiture, Union with God and Spiritual Perfection  1 The Outcome of the Contemplative Process: Spiritual Perfection, Union with God and the Ghemeine Leven  2 Devotional Portraiture and the Visualisation of Spiritual Perfection  3 The Van der Burch Triptych of Jan Provoost, an Exemplary Image of Spiritual Perfection 5 In spiritualem quandam armoniam: Devotional Portraiture and the Role of Images in the Meditative Process  1 The Place of Images in Late Medieval Meditative Theory and Practices  2 Geert Grote’s Tractatus de Quattuor Generibus Meditabilium, the Ghemeine Leven and the Status of Images Conclusions Bibliography index

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Ingrid Falque, Ph.D. (2009), Université catholique de Louvain, is Research Associate of the F.R.S.-FNRS. She is an art historian and has published numerous articles on the various relationships between late medieval images and spirituality in journals (e.g. Speculum, Revue d’histoire ecclésiastique) and edited volumes.

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