Title: ‘Salve Maria Gods Moeder Ghepresen.’ The Salve Regina and the Vernacular in the Art of Hans Memling, Anthonis de Roovere, and Jacob Obrecht
Abstract: This chapter argues that Memling's elaboration of Rogier's format was not simply the result of one artist's ambition to surpass his master but part of a larger trend in the production and reception of works of religious art in late fifteenth-century Bruges. In the last half of the fifteenth century, the poet Anthonis de Roovere and the composer Jacob Obrecht - Memling's Bruges compatriots - also created works of art that intensified their audience's experience of Marian devotion and self-consciously developed the work of their predecessors by building a bridge from the sacred realm of Latin prayer to the here-and-now of the audience. The chapter compares Memling's image with compositions by De Roovere and Obrecht that also take the mater misericordiae and the Salve Regina as their theme. All three compositions share a common source in the Latin material, but the way everyday reality is expressed is media-specific. Keywords:Anthonis de Roovere; fifteenth-century Bruges; Hans Memling; Jacob Obrecht; Latin prayer; Salve Regina
Publication Year: 2012
Publication Date: 2012-01-01
Language: en
Type: book-chapter
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