Rogier van der Weyden and James Ensor: Line and Its Deformation

2014 ◽  
Vol 35 (1) ◽  
pp. 98-108
Author(s):  
Francis-Noël Thomas
Keyword(s):  
James Ensor ◽  
Rogier Van Der Weyden

Streaming Music into Renaissance Studies: The Case of L’homme armé

2017 ◽  
Vol 43 (2) ◽  
pp. 109-139
Author(s):  
Kevin N. Moll
Keyword(s):  
Primary Sources ◽  
College Level ◽  
Instructional Resources ◽  
Musical Tradition ◽  
Panel Painting ◽  
Literary Art ◽  
Renaissance Studies ◽  
Mass Settings ◽  
Rogier Van Der Weyden ◽  
Historical Nature

College-level courses devoted to Renaissance culture typically put a premium on incorporating primary sources and artifacts of a literary, art-historical, and historical nature. Yet the monuments of contemporaneous music continue to be marginalized as instructional resources, even though they are fully as worthy both from an aesthetic and from a historical standpoint. This study attempts to address that problem by invoking the tradition of early polyphonic masses on L’homme armé – a secular tune used as a unifying melody (cantus firmus) throughout settings of the five-movement liturgical cycle. Beginning by explaining the origins and significance of the putative monophonic tune, the paper then details how a series of composers utilized the song in interestingly varied ways in various mass settings. Subsequently it sketches out a context for mysticism in the liturgical-musical tradition of L’homme armé, and points to some compelling parallels with the contemporaneous art of panel painting, specifically as represented in the works of Rogier van der Weyden.

Rogier van der Weyden, an Essay with a Critical Catalogue of Paintings Assigned to Him and to Robert Campin

Art Journal ◽  
1975 ◽  
Vol 35 (2) ◽  
pp. 180
Author(s):  
James Douglas Farquhar ◽  
Martin Davies
Keyword(s):  
Rogier Van Der Weyden

scholarly journals James Ensor, The Bad Doctors 1892

2013 ◽  
Vol 63 (7) ◽  
pp. 461-462
Author(s):  
M. McKiernan
Keyword(s):  
James Ensor

scholarly journals Juana of Castile’s Book of Hours: An Archduchess at Prayer

Religions ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (4) ◽  
pp. 201
Author(s):  
Lesley K. Twomey
Keyword(s):  
Books Of Hours ◽  
Guardian Angel ◽  
The World ◽  
Book Of Hours ◽  
Rogier Van Der Weyden ◽  
The Guardian

This article examines one of Juana of Castile’s books of hours (London, BL Add. MS 18852) comparing it with those written for members of Juana’s family and seeking to discern how it was used, in order to reassess her peers’ evaluation of her spiritual affinities. It considers how Juana customized her book of hours with a miniature of the Virgin and Child, comparing it with a gifted panel painted by Rogier van der Weyden that Juana treasured to show how she placed herself under the protection of the Virgin. Numbered precepts would be intended for her to instruct any future children and are replicated in Isabel, her daughter’s, book. The office of the Guardian Angel is compared with similar ones in Spain and Burgundy and, like devotion to St Veronica, such prayer is another means of protection. The striking mirror of conscience with its reflected skull, like other similar objects decorated with a skull that Juana possessed, sought to lift her from the decay and sinfulness of the world to the spiritual realm.

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