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Christian religion --- Religious architecture --- Sculpture --- Painting --- altarpieces --- Germany

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Christian religion --- Art --- History of civilization --- restoration [process] --- altarpieces --- preserving --- Christelijke kunst --- cultuurgeschiedenis --- Valladolid

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Hans Memling’s altarpiece for the high altar of Santa María la Real in Nájera (1483-1494) must have been one of the most spectacular Flemish art works in the Iberian Peninsula. Only three panels survive in the Antwerp Royal Museum of Fine Arts : God surrounded by singing and music-making angels. The retable’s central theme was the mystery of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin. The iconography of the whole has been described by Jovellanos at the end of the 18th century. From c. 1482 on, dozens of monumental altarpieces dedicated to the Assumption of the Virgin in conjunction with Christological themes have been created throughout Spain. They focus on the complex role of the Holy Virgin, her triumph and glorification. It was a common belief that she was the only human to have borne up bodily into heaven. Although ‘Maryam’ was held in very high esteem by Muslims too –and as such, she was a interreligious ‘bridge’--, her role as Theotokos or Mother of God was a point of conflict. During the last phase of the Reconquista, to Iberian Christians, the Assumption served as an image of the Church/Faith Triumphant, not as a conciliatory belief.

Christian special devotions --- Iconography --- Painting --- iconography --- Christianity --- altarpieces --- easel paintings [paintings by form] --- Memling, Hans --- Mary [s.] --- Spain --- Flanders

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"New insights into the innovative multimedia work and early career of fourteenth-century Italian painter Simone Martini. Painter to popes, princes, and scions of Renaissance dynasties, Simone Martini (ca. 1284-1344) transformed Western painting with his groundbreaking devotional images and masterful manipulation of gold. This beautifully illustrated book highlights the astonishing novelty of his paintings in terms of their construction, multimedia techniques, and imagery. A focus of the book--the first on Simone Martini in English in over thirty years--is the work that he produced for churches in the Umbrian city of Orvieto, a papal refuge and stronghold of the Guelph political faction. The publication sheds light on Simone's early career and technical accomplishments with extended catalogue entries for three Orvieto altarpieces and a painting of private devotion, including the results of new scientific analysis for the Gardner works. Leading scholars consider Simone's patrons, artistic accomplishments, and contributions to the development of the polyptych altarpiece"--

Gold-ground painting --- Polyptychs --- Altarpieces, Gothic --- Christian art and symbolism --- Art chrétien --- Peinture au sol d'or --- Polyptyques --- Retables gothiques --- Art and Design. --- Expertising --- Expertise --- Martini, Simone, --- 1300-1399 --- Italy --- Expertise .