Meaning in materials, 1400-1800 Materiaal en betekenis, 1400-1800
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Meaning in materials, 1400-1800 = Materiaal en betekenis, 1400-1800
(Nederlands kunsthistorisch jaarboek, v. 62)
Brill, 2013
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Description and Table of Contents
Description
This volume of the Nederlands Kunsthistorisch Jaarboek highlights important links between visual and material culture. The essays written by a number of international, renowned scholars approach a variety of materials in their particular historical, cultural and technological settings, uncovering new and surprising meanings in alabaster, oil paint, glass, wood, stone, copper, ebony, paper, and snow.
Table of Contents
Table of Contents
Ann-Sophie Lehmann, How materials make meaning
Michele Tomasi, Materiaux, techniques, commanditaires et espaces. Le systeme des retables a la chartreuse de Champmol
Kim Woods, The Master of Rimini and the tradition of alabaster carving in the early fifteenth-century Netherlands
Aleksandra Lipinska, Alabastrum, id est, corpus hominis. Alabaster in the Low Countries, a cultural history
Koenraad Jonckheere, Images of stone. The physicality of art and the image debates in the sixteenth century
Ralph Dekoninck, Between denial and exaltation. The material of the miraculous images of the Virgin in the Southern Netherlands during the seventeenth century
Thijs Weststeijn, The gender of colors in Dutch art theory
Nadja Baadj, A world of materials in a cabinet without drawers: Reframing Jan van Kessel's The four parts of the world
Martha Moffitt Peacock, Paper as power. Carving a niche for the female artist in the work of Joanna Koerten
Frits Scholten, Malleable marble. The Antwerp snow sculptures of 1772
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