Format:
110 Seiten :
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Illustrationen.
ISBN:
978-90-429-3233-3
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90-429-3233-3
Series Statement:
Studies in iconology 2
Content:
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
Language:
English
Subjects:
Comparative Studies. Non-European Languages/Literatures
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Dutch Studies
Keywords:
Hortus conclusus
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Paradiesgärtlein
;
Hortus conclusus
;
Frauenkloster
;
Schöne Arbeit
URL:
http://bvbr.bib-bvb.de:8991/F?func=service&doc_library=BVB01&local_base=BVB01&doc_number=028969499&sequence=000001&line_number=0001&func_code=DB_RECORDS&service_type=MEDIA
Author information:
Baert, Barbara 1967-
