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Opening Doors:

The Early Netherlandish Triptych Reinterpreted
  • ISBN-13: 9780271048406
  • Publisher: PENN STATE UNIVERSITY PRESS
    Imprint: PENN STATE UNIVERSITY PRESS
  • By Lynn F. Jacobs
  • Price: AUD $225.00
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  • Local release date: 14/06/2012
  • Format: Hardback 328 pages Weight: 0g
  • Categories: Photography & photographs [AJ]
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A study of Netherlandish triptychs from the early fifteenth century through the early seventeenth century, covering works by Jan van Eyck, Rogier van der Weyden, Hugo van der Goes, Hieronymus Bosch, and Peter Paul Rubens. Explores how the triptych format structures and generates meaning.


Contents

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgments

Introduction: The Triptych as a “Painting with Doors”

Part I: Origins and the First Half of the Fifteenth Century

1 The Emergence of the Early Netherlandish Triptych I: Robert Campin (and His Associates)

2 The Emergence of the Early Netherlandish Triptych II: Jan van Eyck

Part II: The Second Half of the Fifteenth Century

3 The Triptych Reformulated: Rogier van der Weyden

4 The Triptych Popularized: Painters of the Second Half of the Fifteenth Century

5 The Triptych Unified: Memling, David, and Later Fifteenth-Century Painters in Bruges

Part III: The Sixteenth Century and Beyond

6 The World Triptych: Hieronymus Bosch

7 The Triptych in the Age of the Renaissance and the Reformation

8 Coda: The Triptych in the Age of Rubens

Notes

Bibliography

Index


“Through careful and insightful interpretation of the extant visual material and contemporary terminology, Jacobs’s argument offers a fresh perspective on this particularly Netherlandish altarpiece format.”

—Nenagh Hathaway, Burlington Magazine

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