In:The Fruit of Devotion: Mysticism and the imagery of love in Flemish paintings of the Virgin and Child, 1450–1550
Reindert L. Falkenburg
[OCULI: Studies in the Arts of the Low Countries 5] 1994
► pp. v–viii
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Table of contents
Prefaceix
1. Fragrance and flavour — allusions to the undepictable1
2. The godliness of ‘taste’: literary witnesses16
3. Metaphors of consumption in the religious language of love of late Middle Ages56
4. Taste metaphors in late medieval devotional paintings77
Notes100
Bibliography141
List of illustrations152
Photographic acknoledgments157
Illustrations159
Index243
