TY  - BOOK
AU  - Pearson,Andrea G.
TI  - Gardens of love and the limits of morality in early Netherlandish art
T2  - Brill's studies in intellectual history,
SN  - 9789004393103
AV  - N7625.5 .P43 2019
U1  - 700/.4561 23
PY  - 2019///]
CY  - Leiden, Boston
PB  - Brill
KW  - Human figure in art
KW  - Art, Netherlandish
KW  - Art and morals
KW  - Benelux countries
KW  - Arts and religion
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Front Matter -- Copyright page -- Dedication -- Acknowledgements -- Figures -- The Erotics of Virtue -- Moralized Love -- Disability and Redemption -- Monastic Morality -- Holy Matrimony -- Infancy Moralized -- Kissing Kids -- The Limits of Mother-Son Eroticism -- Back Matter -- Bibliography -- Index
N2  - 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
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789004393103
ER  -