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Books of Art: 20 Medieval and Renaissance Women Reading

April 12, 2015 By Medievalists.net

Saints Christina and Ottilia by Lucas Cranach the Elder (1506)

I love to read. I also love books depicted in art. I became fascinated with Medieval and Renaissance pictures of women reading or with books. I noticed while I was walking around the National Gallery, Musèe Cluny and the Louvre recently that there are many beautiful images of women reading or with books. Saints, sinners, and laywomen; I wanted to share a few of my favourites. Here are 20 works of art of women and their books

Filed Under: Features, Places To See Tagged With: Antwerp, Art History, Belgium, Book, Early Modern, Early Netherlandish painting/Flemish Primitives, England, Florence, France, Gender, Germany, Hagiography, Italy, Late Middle Ages, Literature, London, Mannerism, Mary Magdalene, Medieval Women, Milan, Modena, Paris, Parma, Renaissance, Saint Barbara, Saint Margaret of Antioch, St. Catherine of Alexandria

Northern Renaissance? Burgundy And Netherlandish Art In Fifteenth-Century Europe

August 25, 2014 By Medievalists.net

El Descendimiento, by Rogier van der Weyden (1400-1464)

Everyone who has studied medieval or modern history knows that the periodisation of the eras on either side of the Renaissance provides much food for thought. This contribution aims irst to address the usefulness of the widespread concept of the ‘Northern Renaissance’.

Filed Under: Articles Tagged With: Art History, Burgundy, Claus Sluter, Early Modern, Early Netherlandish painting/Flemish Primitives, Erwin Panofsky, Europe, Fifteenth Century, Flemish, High Middle Ages, Jan van Eyck, Late Middle Ages, Literature, Netherlands, Northern Renaissance, Philosophy, Renaissance, Rogier van der Weyden, Science, Sixteenth Century, Social History, Thirteenth century