Opening Doors

PENN STATE UNIVERSITY PRESSISBN: 9780271048406

The Early Netherlandish Triptych Reinterpreted

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By Lynn F. Jacobs
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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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