I study early modern #4B Catholic women & their art/architectural patronage, mostly Southern Low Countries. I also edit books, articles, grants etc.
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Did you know that #EarlyModern#LowCountries women owned property, & their parents never paid dowries?
Check out my *free* article, "Low Countries Women as Funders of Art and Architecture: Gender, Property Rights, & the Financing of the Flemish Baroque."
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By the 1250s, St. Christopher's Court Beguinage in Liège had around 1000 members! You can still visit their 1254 church.
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Panel in Ghent's St. Peter's church showing Beguine Joosyne van Doorislaere of the city's Beguinage of St. Elisabeth being miraculously healed of an illness in 1603.
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The image of St. Begga as protector of the Beguines and beghards, in Van Ryckel's Vita S. Beggae, was modeled after images of St. Teresa of Avila.
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The Grand Beguinage of Mechelen outside the city walls, in Guicciardini's Descrittione, 1567.
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The Brussels Grand Beguinage, called the Vineyard, in a print of c. 1726 in Sanderus's Chorographia sacra. Look at all the traffic around the gate!
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The earliest known altarpiece from a Beguine Church depicting St. Begga as founder of the Beguines. From the Leuven Grand Beguinage Church, early 17th c.
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St. Begga of Andenne, with the seven Holy Pilgrimage Churches of Rome, by Adriaen Collaert in 1616.
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Ansegisel and St. Begga, the purported first Duchess of Brabant, in a print of c. 1600 and Rubens' imaginative portrait of 1616.
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On June 4 of 1622, 345 Brussels Beguines, along with the Archducchess Isabella Clara Eugenia, walked in a procession in honor of the miraculous Our Lady of Laken.
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The Brussels Grand Beguinage, called the Vineyard, in a print of c. 1726 in Sanderus's Chorographia sacra. Look at all the traffic around the gate!
Want to know more? Check out my new book, out in August:
https://t.co/bVNWQ3P8iH
#EarlyModern#nuntastic#ArtHistory
The Grand Beguinage of Mechelen outside the city walls, in Guicciardini's Descrittione, 1567.
Want to know more? Check out my new book, out in August:
https://t.co/bVNWQ3P8iH
#EarlyModern#nuntastic#ArtHistory
Interior of Bruge's Beguinage Church of St. Elisabeth, with 17th-c altars and 18th-c choir fence and choir stalls.
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Panel in Ghent's St. Peter's church showing Beguine Joosyne van Doorislaere of the city's Beguinage of St. Elisabeth being miraculously healed of an illness in 1603.
Want to know more about Beguines? Check out my new book, out in August:
https://t.co/bVNWQ3P8iH
#ArtHistory
Grand mistres Philipotte Dysembaert of the Small Court Beguinage of Ghent rebuilt her community's church in the mid-17th century, resulting in the building standing today.
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By the 1250s, St. Christopher's Court Beguinage in Liège had around 1000 members! You can still visit their 1254 church.
Want to know more? Check out my new book, out in August:
https://t.co/bVNWQ3P8iH
#EarlyModern#nuntastic#ArtHistory
Deze nieuw ontdekte prent, gewijd aan de zusters Houtappels uit ca. 1640 werpt een nieuw licht op het Mariabeeld in de Carolus Borromeuskerk in #Antwerpen 💒
Het #Bedevaartsbeeld (met ex voto’s) stond in barokke kast ✨
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