Books, Woodcuts, and Paintings. Meditation and Devotion through Text and Image in Antwerp, ca. 1480–1500
(2015) The Renaissance Society of America Annual Meeting — Location: Berlin (D) (26.March.2015)
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- Antwerp’s rapid development as the capital of printing in the early sixteenth century coincided with its growth as an international art market. Like the art trade, printing was a matter of business and profit. In Antwerp, printers, painters and poets worked together in the guild of St. Luke. In the art market located at Our Lady’s Pandt, paintings, altarpieces, sculptures and books were literally sold next to each other. Printing and painting was thus closely connected in both production and consumption. This paper explores the vernacular production of the early Antwerp printers in in its historical setting of guilds, markets and both artistic and technical innovations. The focus is on religious works, as these were the bulk of the printed material in Dutch in the first decades of printing. What devotional and meditative practices and models do these texts convey, and how can these practices be connected to visual arts?
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Dlabacova, A. (2015). Books, Woodcuts, and Paintings. Meditation and Devotion through Text and Image in Antwerp, ca. 1480–1500. The Renaissance Society of America Annual Meeting, Berlin (D). https://hdl.handle.net/2078.5/185876