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The Annunciation in Maryâs Chamber
Art, Intimacy, and Devotion in the Low Countries (15th - Early 16th Centuries) - Volume Two - Catalog of Paintings
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The Annunciation in Maryâs Chamber explores the domestic iconography of early Netherlandish Annunciation paintings in the context of domestic devotion. Drawing on a vast array of archival documents, catechetical manuals, and close visual analyses, Thor-Oona Pignarre-Altermatt argues that domestic devotional practices fostered new modes of intimacy based on the use of images, books, and objects. While Annunciation paintings have primarily prompted symbolic interpretations, this richly illustrated, methodologically innovative book reinterprets them as reflections of the evolving relationships between representations and practices that shaped the devotional culture of the late medieval and early modern Low Countries. The book is accompanied by the first comprehensive catalog of early Netherlandish Annunciation paintings created between c. 1425 and c. 1525.
Thor-Oona Pignarre-Altermatt is a postdoctoral researcher at UCLouvain working on late medieval and early modern religious culture, and is co-editor of the forthcoming volume Les Réceptions de la spiritualité médiévale des Pays-Bas et de la région rhénane à lâépoque moderne.
Academic institutes, libraries, researchers, post-graduate students, museums, curators, auction houses specialists: art history, religious studies, early Netherlandish painting, iconography, iconology, visual culture, material culture, history of images. Keywords: Early Netherlandish painting, Flemish Primitives, religion, piety, devotional culture, visual culture, religious culture, privacy, devotional image, iconology, Erwin Panofsky, history of images, Christian iconography, domestic space, material culture, materiality, symbolism, realism, spirituality, spiritual literature, book, vernacular literature, Virgin Mary, Middle Dutch, Latin, French, late Middle Ages, early modernity, Flanders, Burgundian Netherlands