1st Edition

Thresholds and Boundaries Liminality in Netherlandish Art (1385-1530)

By Lynn F. Jacobs Copyright 2018
240 Pages
by Routledge

240 Pages 12 Color & 82 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

240 Pages 12 Color & 82 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

Although liminality has been studied by scholars of medieval and seventeenth-century art, the role of the threshold motif in Netherlandish art of the late fourteenth, fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries -- this late medieval/early ‘early modern’ period -- has been much less fully investigated.   Thresholds and Boundaries: Liminality in Netherlandish Art (1385-1550)  addresses this issue... Read more

Table of Contents

Part I: Introduction

1. Liminality, Thresholds and Boundaries

Part II: Case Studies

2. The Threshold of Death: Sluter’s Portal of the Chartreuse de Champmol

3. The Boundary of Class: The Calendar of the Très Riches Heures

Part III: Studies in Format

4. The Thresholds of Manuscript Illuminations

5. The Thresholds of Altarpieces

Part IV: Coda

6. Liminality in Dutch Seventeenth-Century Painting

Bibliography

Biography

Lynn F. Jacobs is Distinguished Professor of Art History at the University of Arkansas.  Her previous publications have included two books -- Early Netherlandish Carved Altarpieces: Medieval Tastes and Mass Marketing and Opening Doors: The Early Netherlandish Triptych Reinterpreted -- as well as articles in Art Bulletin, The Sixteenth Century Journal, Jaarboek Koninklijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten Antwerpen, Zeitschrift für Kunstgeschichte and elsewhere. In 1990 her Art Bulletin article was awarded the Arthur Kingsley Porter Prize by the College Art Association.