Overview

Wall-mounted memorials (or ‘epitaphs’) enjoyed great popularity across the Burgundian Netherlands. Usually installed in churches above graves, they combine images with inscriptions and take the form of sculpted reliefs, brass plaques, or panel paintings. They preserved the memory of the dead and reminded the living to pray for their souls. On occasions, renowned artists like Jan van Eyck and Rogier van der Weyden were closely involved in memorials’ creation. In Pious Memories Douglas Brine examines the wall-mounted memorial as a distinct category of funerary monument and shows it to be a significant, if overlooked, aspect of fifteenth-century Netherlandish art. The patronage, functions, and meanings of these objects are considered in the context of contemporary commemorative practices and the culture of memoria. For sample pages click on Google Books button. Brine received the 2015 Arthur Kingsley Porter Prize, for an earlier version of Chapter 5 of Pious Memories, his article, “Jan van Eyck, Canon Joris van der Paele, and the Art of Commemoration,” published in the September 2014 issue of The Art Bulletin.

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The book is well-illustrated and indexed, with Appendices containing transcriptions of key documents. Thoroughly researched, it introduces much information previously only available in Dutch or German into English. It is a convincing and interesting approach to these fascinating and much under-studied objects. Christina Farley

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Douglas Brine, Ph.D. (2006), Courtauld Institute, teaches at Trinity University, San Antonio (Texas). He has held fellowships at the Courtauld Institute and the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts, and has published several articles on early Netherlandish art.

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