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Record Number:
5452
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Reflections on St. Luke's Hand: Icons and the Nature of Aura in the Burgundian Low Countries During the Fifteenth Century [argues that the fifteen copies of Cambrai's "Virgin and Child" icon were commissioned as part of a fund raising effort for the liberation of Constantinople from the Ottomans].
Source:
The Sacred Image East and West. Edited by Robert Ousterhout and Leslie Brubaker. Illinois Byzantine Studies IV. University of Illinois Press, 1995. Pages 132 - 146.
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Article Type:
Essay
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Art History- Painting- Copies
Cambrai, Nord, France -Cathedral
Copying
Crusades
Fund Raising
Icons
Jean de Burgogne, Count d'Etampes
Mary, Virgin, Saint in Art
Women in Art
Award Note:
Geographic Area:
France
Century:
15
Primary Evidence:
Painting; Cambrai, Cathedral, "Notre-Dame de Grâce." Panel painting, Sienese or Florentine copy of a Byzantiune prototype, early fourteenth century.
Illustrations:
Four figures. "The Virgin and Child" from Cambrai along with two possible copies, Brussels, Musées royaux des Beaux-Arts de Belgique and Kansas City, Missouri, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art. Rogier van der Weyden's "St. Luke Drawing a Portrait of the Virgin," Boston, Museum of Fine Arts.
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Year of Publication:
1995.
Language:
English
ISSN/ISBN:
0252020960