| Title | Late medieval enclosed gardens of the Low Countries : contributions to gender and artistic expression |
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| Type | Bibliographic |
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| Year | 2016 |
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| Summary | 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 |
| BH ID | BV043554311 |
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| Open Data ID | BVB01-028969499 |
| Name | Baert, Barbara |
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| Type | 100 |
| Year | 1967- |
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| Relationship | aut |
| Relator | Verfasser |
| GND | 133359964 : json |
| Wikidata | Q24188437 |
| Name | Hortus conclusus |
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| GND ID | 7662650-7 : json |
| Wikidata | Q1630273 |
| Name | LD 7272 |
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| Type | 084 |
| Tag | 084 |
| Scheme | rvk |
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