Envisioning Gender in Burgundian Devotional Art, 1350–1530

Experience, Authority, Resistance

Andrea Pearson (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

264 Seiten

2017
Routledge (Verlag)
9781138274358 (ISBN)

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Illuminated here are the relationships between visual culture, faith, and gender in the courtly, monastic, and urban spheres of the early modern Burgundian Netherlands. By examining works by artists such as the Master of Mary of Burgundy, Jan van Eyck, Hans Memling, and Bernard van Orley, author Andrea Pearson identifies and explores pictorial constructions of masculinity and femininity in regard to the expectations, experiences, and practices of devotion. Specifically, she demonstrates that two of the most prominent visual genres of the period, books of hours and devotional portrait diptychs, were manipulated by patrons and spectators of both sexes to challenge and negotiate the boundaries and hierarchies of gender, and that marginalized individuals and groups appropriated the types to resist the authority of others and advance their own. Ultimately, the books and diptychs emerge as critical and often contentious sites for deliberating and transacting gender. By integrating books of hours and devotional portrait diptychs into current interdisciplinary theoretical discourse on gender, power and devotion, the author engages scholars in a range of disciplines: art history, history, religion and literature, as well as women's and men's studies.

Andrea Pearson is a specialist in the visual culture of northern Europe from the fourteenth through the sixteenth centuries, she has published on gender and devotional art in Gesta, Renaissance Quarterly, Woman's Art Journal, and the Sixteenth Century Journal.

Contents: Introduction: Performing gender in the Burgundian Netherlands; Authority and community in women's books of hours; Regendering the faith: books of hours, devotional portrait diptychs, and the affirmation of men; The problem of male embodiment in two diptychs from Bruges; Nuns and clerics: ambiguous authority in a devotional portrait diptych; Disrupting gender at the court of Margaret of Austria; Conclusion; Appendix; Bibliography; Index.

Erscheinungsdatum	12.07.2017
Reihe/Serie	Women and Gender in the Early Modern World
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	153 x 219 mm
Gewicht	490 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
ISBN-13	9781138274358 / 9781138274358
Zustand	Neuware