Essays in Context: Unfolding the Netherlandish Diptych

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BOOKEssays in Context: Unfolding the Netherlandish Diptych

John Oliver Hand (Editor), Ron Spronk (Editor)

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00045

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With contributions by Marina Belozerskaya, Till-Holger Borchert, Lorne Campbell, Reindert Falkenburg, Ivan Gaskell, Laura D. Gelfand, Peter Klein, Maximiliaan P. J. Martens, Carol J. Purtle, Victor M. Schmidt, Hugo van der Velden, Hélène Verougstraete, and Yvonne Yiu

This book features essays by leading scholars that explore a wide range of topics relating to 15th- and 16th-century Netherlandish diptychs. The text addresses the practical and social uses of the diptych, the history and origins of the format, and the philosophical issues related to the practice of researching these diptychs. It also analyzes the devotional function of these works in the context of contemporary texts and religious practices in northern Europe.

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John Oliver Hand (Editor), Ron Spronk (Editor)

PublisherHarvard Art Museums

Print publication date December 2006 (out of print)

Print ISBN 9780300121407

EISBN 9780300247954

Illustrations 75

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List of illustrations

Wilton Diptych
Wilton Diptych, reverse
Crucifixion with Count Georg von Löwenstein
Christ as Man of Sorrows
Count Georg von Löwenstein
Drawing after a lost portrait of John the Fearless, duke of Burgundy
Guillaume Jouvenel des Ursins
The Jouvenel des Ursins Family
Guarin de Beste
Laureins Wouters
The Patron at Prayer before the Virgin and Child
Portrait of Marie Haneton, First Wife of Lambert du Briaerd
Portrait of Marie Haneton, reverse
Breviary of Catherine of Valois
First dedication page from the Brussels Hours of Jean de Berry
Philip the Good at Mass, detail, from Traité sur l'Oraison Dominicale
Reliquary with Man of Sorrows
Das Goldene Rössl
Saint George and the Dragon and Virgin and Child With Saints
Virgin and Child and Joanna of Castile in Prayer
Annunciation Diptych
Virgin and Child and Christ Blessing
Annunciation, outer panels of triptych
The Annunciation
Annunciation from Ghent Altarpiece, outside panels
Composite of Van Eyck figures
Virgin and Child and Jean de Gros
Map of Bruges with the De Gros house at the lower left
Floor plan of the Church of Our Lady, Bruges. The chapel of the Van Nieuwenhove family is indicated at the right.
Virgin and Child
Maarten van Nieuwenhove
Devotional triptych
Annunciation Triptych (Merode Altarpiece)
The Angel Gabriel and The Virgin Annunciate
Margaret of Austria in Worship of the Virgin
Diptych of Bernardijn Salviati, reconstruction of the reverse
Plan of the Church of Saint Donatian, Bruges, with the locations of the altar of Saint John the Baptist ("X" in the detail) and the chapel of Saint John the Evangelist (the Rapondi chapel, no. 28).
Alteration of the endowment of Bernardijn Salviati in the "planarius" of the Church of Saint Donation.
A Miracle of Our Lady, in Jean Mielot, Miracles Nostre Dame
Diptych of Bernardijn Salviati, opened at angle, reconstruction
Diptych of the Van de Velde Family, opened at angle, reconstruction
Plan of the Church of Sainte-Savine, Troyes, from Lefèvre-Pontalis 1903.
Altar in a chapel of the southern aisle of the Church of Sainte-Savine, Troyes
Diptych Altarpiece of the Passion
Priest celebrating Mass in front of Adriaan Isenbrant's "Diptych of the Van de Velde Family," reconstruction
A diptych with (a) dissimilar decoration on the reverses; (b) correctly positioned; and (c, d) ready for opening. "Christ carrying the Cross" (reverse, imitation porphyry) and "Portrait of a Fifty-four-year-old Franciscan" (reverse, skull).
Reconstruction of "Saint John the Baptist" (reverse, skull) and reconstruction of "Saint Veronica" (reverse, chalice of Saint John the Evangelist)
Reconstruction of a diptych showing (a) the reverse of a wing portraying a niche rendered frontally with lateral lighting. Grasping the wing along (b) the shadowy side of the niche would ensure (c) a correct opening of the diptych. Young Man in Prayer.
Examples of the use of perspective employed to represent a single or unified space spread over separate panel scenes
Example in which the use of frontal perspective in each panel results in independent spaces organized in a narrative or historical sequence (Miraflores Altarpiece)
The Crucifixion and The Last Judgment
Pendant portrait of Barthélemyy Alatruye and Marie de Pacey
Virgin and Child and Willem van Bibaut
The Five Wounds of Christ (reverse of Willem van Bibaut)
The Virgin and Child with Female Saints; Jean du Cellier with Saint John the Baptist
Ecce Homo and Mater Dolorosa
The Virgin and Child Enthroned
Jean Carondelet and Virgin and Child (Carondelet Diptych)
The distribution of sapwood rings in eastern Europe
Dendrochronological dating of Mater Dolorosa paintings.
Hours of Étienne Chevalier
Hours of Étienne Chevalier
Gold Votive of Statue of Charles the Bold
Angel Gabriel and Virgin Annunciate, right panel, detail of reflection
Virgin and Child, detail of mirror
Madonna in a Church
Virgin in the Church
Abbot Christiaan de Hondt
Virgin in the Church
Antonio Siciliano and Saint Anthony
Diptych of Bernardijn Salviati
Diptych of Bernardijn Salviati
Priest celebrating Mass in front of Gerard David's "Diptych of Bernardijn Salviati," reconstruction
Antwerp-Baltimore Quadriptych with the Annunciation (reverse: Baptism of Christ), Nativity, Crucifixion, and Resurrection (reverse: Saint Christopher).
Heavenly Redemption and Earthly Vanity

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John Oliver Hand (Editor), Ron Spronk (Editor)

Essays in Context: Unfolding the Netherlandish Diptych

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John Oliver Hand (Editor), Ron Spronk (Editor)

PublisherHarvard Art Museums

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00045.001

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Director’s Foreword

Thomas W. Lentz

Essays in Context: Unfolding the Netherlandish Diptych

~~INTERDISCIPLINARY APPROACHES to the study of art are at the core of the mission of the Harvard University Art Museums. In its wide range of research and teaching activities, any university museum will draw on a multitude of examination methods and art historical discourses. The exhibition Prayers and Portraits:...

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Thomas W. Lentz

PublisherHarvard Art Museums

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Preface and Acknowledgments

John Oliver Hand (Editor), Ron Spronk (Editor)

Essays in Context: Unfolding the Netherlandish Diptych

~~THIS VOLUME OF ESSAYS and the exhibition Prayers and Portraits: Unfolding the Netherlandish Diptych and its catalogue are the happy culmination of many years of research, travel, and discussion. The idea for the project grew from the study of a number of paintings in the Harvard...

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John Oliver Hand (Editor), Ron Spronk (Editor)

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Contributors

John Oliver Hand (Editor), Ron Spronk (Editor)

Essays in Context: Unfolding the Netherlandish Diptych

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John Oliver Hand (Editor), Ron Spronk (Editor)

PublisherHarvard Art Museums

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00045.004

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Diptychs and Supplicants: Precedents and Contexts of Fifteenth-Century Devotional Diptychs

Victor M. Schmidt

Essays in Context: Unfolding the Netherlandish Diptych

IN THIS CONTRIBUTION, I intend to survey the main characteristics of diptychs in European panel painting before 1400 and to discuss some functions of portraits of supplicants in various media. My aim is to provide some context for the devotional diptychs in early Netherlandish and...

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Victor M. Schmidt

PublisherHarvard Art Museums

Related print edition pages: pp.15-25

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00045.005

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Chapter subject tags:Panel painting, NetherlandishDiptychsReligious artDevotional objectsWilton diptychArt patronageFouquet, Jean, approximately 1420-approximately 1480

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Diptychs with Portraits

Lorne Campbell

Essays in Context: Unfolding the Netherlandish Diptych

IT IS NOT ALWAYS POSSIBLE TO RECOGNIZE...

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Lorne Campbell

PublisherHarvard Art Museums

Related print edition pages: pp.33-42

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00045.006

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Chapter subject tags:Christian art and symbolismPanel painting, Northern EuropeanDiptychsDevotional objectsArt patronagePortraits, Northern EuropeanHeraldry in artPanofsky, Erwin, 1892-1968

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The Devotional Portrait Diptych and the Manuscript Tradition

Laura D. Gelfand

Essays in Context: Unfolding the Netherlandish Diptych

WHEN THE OWNER OF A DEVOTIONAL DIPTYCH used it as a stimulus for worship, the accessories and recited prayers employed with it were closely linked to the origins of the...

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Laura D. Gelfand

PublisherHarvard Art Museums

Related print edition pages: pp.47-56

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00045.007

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Chapter subject tags:Christian art and symbolismIllumination of books and manuscriptsBooks of hoursDevotional objectsDiptychsPortrait painting, NetherlandishArt patronageWomen art patrons

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Early Netherlandish Diptychs as Surrogate Luxuries

Marina Belozerskaya

Essays in Context: Unfolding the Netherlandish Diptych

PAINTED NETHERLANDISH DIPTYCHS are beautiful and beguiling creations. Yet they were not, in their time, considered to be precious objects. Technical analyses have found little in them by way of intrinsically valuable materials. Only Rogier van der Weyden’s diptych...

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Marina Belozerskaya

PublisherHarvard Art Museums

Related print edition pages: pp.61-70

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00045.008

Stable URL: https://aaeportal.com/?id=-18133

Chapter subject tags:Christian art and symbolismPortrait painting, NetherlandishDiptychsArt patronageReliquaries

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The Context of Jan van Eyck’s Approach to the Thyssen Annunciation Diptych

Carol J. Purtle

Essays in Context: Unfolding the Netherlandish Diptych

THE EXHIBITION Prayers and Portraits: Unfolding the Netherlandish Diptych offers viewers an important opportunity to examine a number of paintings reunited in diptych format for the first time in modern history. While the surviving known works are presumed to be only a small sampling of the paintings actually produced, early examples of diptych...

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Carol J. Purtle

PublisherHarvard Art Museums

Related print edition pages: pp.73-81

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00045.009

Stable URL: https://aaeportal.com/?id=-18134

Chapter subject tags:Christian art and symbolismDiptychsEyck, Jan van, 1390-1440Weyden, Rogier van der, 1399 or 1400-1464Panel painting, Netherlandish

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Some Reflections on the Social Function of Diptychs

Maximiliaan P.J. Martens

Essays in Context: Unfolding the Netherlandish Diptych

AMONG THE MANY TYPES of diptychs created during the fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries, the devotional portrait diptych featuring the half-length Virgin and Child coupled with a portrait of a donor in adoration was extraordinarily successful. Created by Rogier van der Weyden, the format catered to the taste of courtiers and functionaries at the...

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Maximiliaan P.J. Martens

PublisherHarvard Art Museums

Related print edition pages: pp.85-90

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00045.010

Stable URL: https://aaeportal.com/?id=-18135

Chapter subject tags:Christian art and symbolismDiptychsDevotional objectsPanel painting, NetherlandishArt patronageWeyden, Rogier van der, 1399 or 1400-1464

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Hans Memling’s Van Nieuwenhove Diptych: The Place of Prayer in Early Netherlandish Devotional Painting

Reindert L. Falkenburg

Essays in Context: Unfolding the Netherlandish Diptych

THE DIPTYCH THAT HANS MEMLING painted in 1487 for Bruges citizen Maarten van Nieuwenhove is usually categorized as a “private...

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Reindert L. Falkenburg

PublisherHarvard Art Museums

Related print edition pages: pp.93-105

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00045.011

Stable URL: https://aaeportal.com/?id=-18136

Chapter subject tags:Christian art and symbolismDiptychsDevotional objectsMemling, Hans, 1430?-1494Art patronagePanel painting, Netherlandish--15th centuryCampin, Robert, -1444

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Hinging Past and Present: Diptych Variants of Jan van Eyck’s Virgin in the Church

Yvonne Yiu

Essays in Context: Unfolding the Netherlandish Diptych

THE DECADES AROUND 1500 WITNESSED the intensified preoccupation of Netherlandish painters with the art of their great predecessors, Jan van Eyck, Rogier van der Weyden, and Robert Campin.See Erwin Panofsky, Early Netherlandish Painting: Its Origins and Character, 2 vols. (Cambridge, Mass., 1953), 1:350–356; Larry Silver, The Paintings of Quinten Massys with Catalogue Raisonné (Oxford, 1984), 70–86; and Hans J. van Miegroet, Gerard David (Antwerp, 1989), 95–141, for a discussion of the grounds for this phenomenon. Artists made astonishingly exact copies, integrated motifs from older images into new ensembles, and created new compositions in the spirit of the older...

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Yvonne Yiu

PublisherHarvard Art Museums

Related print edition pages: pp.111-119

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00045.012

Stable URL: https://aaeportal.com/?id=-18137

Chapter subject tags:Christian art and symbolismEyck, Jan van, 1390-1440DiptychsPanel painting, Netherlandish--15th centuryArt patronageDevotional objects

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Diptych Altarpieces and the Principle of Dextrality

Hugo van der Velden

Essays in Context: Unfolding the Netherlandish Diptych

IN 1474 GUILLAUME DUFAY, the most famous composer of his age, willed a painting representing the Virgin and his confrater Simon le Breton to Cambrai Cathedral, where both he and Simon had been...

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Hugo van der Velden

PublisherHarvard Art Museums

Related print edition pages: pp.125-147

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00045.013

Stable URL: https://aaeportal.com/?id=-18138

Chapter subject tags:Christian art and symbolismDiptychsDavid, Gérard, approximately 1460-1523Panel painting, Netherlandish--15th centuryArt patronagePanofsky, Erwin, 1892-1968Fouquet, Jean, approximately 1420-approximately 1480Altarpieces, Netherlandish

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Diptychs with Instructions for Use

Hélène Verougstraete

Essays in Context: Unfolding the Netherlandish Diptych

FEW NETHERLANDISH DIPTYCHS dating from the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries have been preserved intact in their original configuration including their frames, and only some of them have been treated in publications. Among the rare examples of diptychs conserved in their original frames, some are small, and it is relatively easy to see that they...

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Hélène Verougstraete

PublisherHarvard Art Museums

Related print edition pages: pp.157-169

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00045.014

Stable URL: https://aaeportal.com/?id=-18139

Chapter subject tags:Christian art and symbolismDiptychsPanel painting, Netherlandish--15th centuryPerspective (Art)Devotional objects

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Innovation, Reconstruction, and Deconstruction: Early Netherlandish Diptychs in the Mirror of Their Reception

Till-Holger Borchert

Essays in Context: Unfolding the Netherlandish Diptych

THE SIMPLICITY OF THE DIPTYCH FORM, with its plain, two-part structure, seems to have destined it—even more than the polyptych or triptych—to become a flexible medium of artistic...

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Till-Holger Borchert

PublisherHarvard Art Museums

Related print edition pages: pp.173-189

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00045.015

Stable URL: https://aaeportal.com/?id=-18140

Chapter subject tags:Christian art and symbolismPanel painting, Netherlandish--15th centuryDevotional objectsArt patronagePortrait painting, Netherlandish

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Diptychs—What’s the Point?

Ivan Gaskell

Essays in Context: Unfolding the Netherlandish Diptych

ART MUSEUM SCHOLARS address certain human-made, tangible objects: artifacts classified as artworks...

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Ivan Gaskell

PublisherHarvard Art Museums

Related print edition pages: pp.201-211

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00045.016

Stable URL: https://aaeportal.com/?id=-18141

Chapter subject tags:Christian art and symbolismDiptychsPanel painting, Netherlandish--15th century

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Unfolding the Netherlandish Diptych: Dendrochronological Analyses

Peter Klein

Essays in Context: Unfolding the Netherlandish Diptych

DENDROCHRONOLOGY, or tree-ring dating, is the science of determining the age of wooden objects, or those in which wood has been used, based on measurements of the variation in the width of annual growth rings in the wood. The...

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Peter Klein

PublisherHarvard Art Museums

Related print edition pages: pp.215-223

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00045.017

Stable URL: https://aaeportal.com/?id=-18142

Chapter subject tags:DendrochronologyArt--DatingDiptychsPanel painting, Netherlandish--15th centuryArt--Conservation and restoration

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Color Plates

John Oliver Hand (Editor), Ron Spronk (Editor)

Essays in Context: Unfolding the Netherlandish Diptych

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John Oliver Hand (Editor), Ron Spronk (Editor)

PublisherHarvard Art Museums

Related print edition pages: pp.228-242

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00045.018

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Exhibition Catalogue Checklist

John Oliver Hand (Editor), Ron Spronk (Editor)

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~The following list corresponds to the objects included in the exhibition catalogue Prayers and Portraits: Unfolding the Netherlandish Diptych (National Gallery of Art, Washington, in association with Yale University Press, 2006).

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~The illustrations in this volume are reproduced with permission of their owners. Every effort has been made to trace the copyright holders, and we apologize for any unintentional omissions.

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