The armorial panels of the knights of the Golden Fleece in Mechelen: material witnesses to the political history of the Low Countries at the end of the fifteenth century

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Result on the web

<a href="https://www.kikirpa.be/en/publications/bulletin-37-2021-2022" target="_blank" >https://www.kikirpa.be/en/publications/bulletin-37-2021-2022</a>

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Result language

angličtina

Original language name

The armorial panels of the knights of the Golden Fleece in Mechelen: material witnesses to the political history of the Low Countries at the end of the fifteenth century

Original language description

Founded in 1430 by Philip the Good, Duke of Burgundy, the chivalric order of the Golden Fleece met twenty-three times between 1430 and 1559 in various places in the Burgundian territories. During these meetings (called ‘chapters’), panels depicting the coats of arms of the thirty knights and of the sovereign of the Order were placed above the seats each of them occupied in the church stalls. The panels with the knights’ coats of arms made for the chapter of 1491, preserved in the Cathedral of Saint Rumbold in Mechelen, are one of the most complete series in existence. The Royal Institute for Cultural Heritage’s (KIK-IRPA) study of two of these panels with the coats of arms of Philip the Handsome and Philip of Burgundy, Lord of Beveren, casts light on this little-known but important genre, which bears witness to the political history of the Low Countries at the end of the fifteenth century. Modern methods of analysis and examination are used for the first time to describe the nature of the materials and the painting build-up. These paintings are also placed in a broader context of creation by discussing their attribution and reflecting on how they were perceived and used during the chapters of the Order of the Golden Fleece. The discovery of a major change of composition in the panel with the coat of arms of Philip the Handsome stimulated further research into the placement of the knights during the Mechelen chapter, revealing several errors and discrepancies that can be explained by the turbulent context in which the paintings were made.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_ost - Miscellaneous article in a specialist periodical

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

60500 - Other Humanities and the Arts

Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2022

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

The Bulletin of the Royal Institute for Cultural Heritage

ISSN

0085-1892

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Volume of the periodical

2021/2022

Issue of the periodical within the volume

37

Country of publishing house

BE - BELGIUM

Number of pages

31

Pages from-to

139-170

UT code for WoS article

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EID of the result in the Scopus database

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