Early Netherlandish carved altarpieces, 1380-1550
Subtitle: medieval tastes and mass marketing
By: Lynn F. Jacobs.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1998
Place of publication: Cambridge; New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 352
Subjects: Altarpieces, Flemish; Altarpieces, Gothic -- Belgium -- Flanders; Wood-carving, Gothic -- Belgium -- Flanders; Wood-carving -- Belgium -- Flanders; Altarpieces -- Belgium -- Flanders -- Marketing
Description: Between about 1380 and 1550, carved wooden altarpieces became a major art industry in the South Netherlands. Richly gilded and lavishly polychromed, these works consist of a sculpted center and painted wings, usually showing narrative cycles of the lives of Christ and Mary. This is the first full-scale study of these works. It examines the late medieval aesthetic and religious tastes that these altarpieces were designed to satisfy, and the proto-modern methods used to mass market these works.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 329-341) and index.