The Fruit of Devotion: Mysticism and the imagery of love in Flemish paintings of the Virgin and Child, 1450–1550
Reindert L. Falkenburg
Against the background of the wide-spread 'love' spirituality of the late Middle Ages, the book takes as its central theme the 'taste' metaphor which appears in paintings featuring the Virgin and Child, belonging to the genre of the Andachtsbild. The first chapter describes the use of fruit and… read more[OCULI: Studies in the Arts of the Low Countries, 5] 1994. x, 244 pp. 84 bl./wh. ills., bibl. index

