THE MAKING OF ILLUMINATED
MANUSCRIPTS IN FLANDERS BETWEEN 1420 AND 1530
Chairs: Gregory
Clark (University of the South, Sewanee), Margret
Goehring (SUNY Geneseo), Anne Margreet As-Vijvers
(Independent Scholar)
The past decade has
been an exciting one for students of book painting
in Flanders from the time of Philip the Good to the
death of Margaret of Austria. Those ten years saw
the publication of monographs on the illuminators
Willem Vrelant (1997), the Master of the Dresden Prayerbook
(1997), and the Master of the Ghent Privileges (2000);
studies on manuscript centers like Valenciennes (1996)
and Amiens (1999); and important catalogues for exhibitions
mounted in Paris in 1993 (Manuscrits A peintures
en France 1440-1520), in Cambridge in 1993 (Splendours
of Flanders), in St. Petersburg and Florence in
1996 (Flemish Illuminated Manuscripts 1475-1550), and in Arras in 2000 (Arras A la fin du Moyen Age). These and many other publications were complemented
in 1998 by Maurits Smeyers's magisterial overview Vlaamse miniaturen van de 8ste tot het midden van
de 16de eeuw.
This wealth of new
writing has both enlarged our understanding of Flemish
book painting and raised new methodological questions.
In order both to showcase and critically to examine
this surge of scholarly activity, the present session
will offer a forum for recent research on manuscript
illumination in francophone and netherlandophone Flanders
from 1420 to 1530. While all methodological approaches
are welcome, we especially encourage speakers to consider
such issues as the definition of Flemish manuscript
production as a distinct regional practice, the character
of workshop organization, the transmission of models,
patterns of patronage, and the impact of changing
devotional practices.
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