Hugo van der Goes's Adoration of the Shepherds: between ascetic idealism and urban networks in late medieval Flanders
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Beteilige Person: Buskirk, Jessica (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch Paper
Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: 2014
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Links:http://www.jhna.org/index.php/vol-61-2014/250-buskirk-hugo-van-der-goess-adoration-of-the-shepherds
https://doi.org/10.5092/jhna.2014.6.1.1
Beschreibung:Recent interpretations of Hugo van der Goes's Adoration of the Shepherds altarpiece have taken the painter's withdrawal to a monastery associated with the Devotio Moderna movement as a departure point, describing the painting as a rejection of the sensual world and the techniques of illusionism used to represent it. The painting's muted coloring seemed to support this reading, but restoration of the Adoration has provided new visual evidence, revealing the image to be bright and exuberantly illusionistic. Likewise, historical evidence indicates that the spiritual lives of Hugo's elite, urban clientele were far more complicated than the spiritual poverty prescribed in New Devotional sermons and treatises. I suggest that there may be no normative text underlying the painting's eccentric form. Instead, I turn to an equivalent artistic form to better understand the painting's aesthetic and spiritual strategies, offering a side-by-side reading with a piece of contemporary poetry produced in the same milieu
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DOI:10.5092/jhna.2014.6.1.1