Making and Unmaking Love in the Macclesfield Psalter

IF 0.8 1区 艺术学 0 ART GESTA-INTERNATIONAL CENTER OF MEDIEVAL ART Pub Date : 2023-03-01 DOI:10.1086/723204
P. Carns
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The fourteenth-century English Psalter known as the Macclesfield Psalter (Cambridge, Fitzwilliam Museum, MS 1–2005) features numerous love scenes in the bas-de-page. Most appear at standard psalm openings below elaborate historiated initials, which usually frame scenes from the life of King David. This essay argues that these amatory motifs work in tandem with the adjacent biblical iconography to make pointed statements about the dangers of unsanctioned sex and lustful behavior. They achieve this through the choice of biblical event, new iconographic interpretations—of both the biblical and secular material—and various pictorial strategies. A comparison between the manuscript’s innovative love designs and stock motifs, such as on Gothic ivories and in manuscript illumination, reveals not only the inventiveness of the book’s designer but also an intention to manipulate this visual tradition for a specific purpose. Neither the book’s commissioner nor intended audience is known. This essay argues that an as-yet-unidentified woman in the orbit of the earls of Arundel and Surrey might have requested the book for a young man and that she worked with a Dominican advisor to create the book’s lavish visual cycle.
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《麦克尔斯菲尔德诗篇》中的做爱与失恋
14世纪的英国Psalter被称为Macclesfield Psalter(剑桥,菲茨威廉博物馆,MS 1–2005),在封底中有许多爱情场景。大多数出现在标准的赞美诗开头,下面是精心制作的历史首字母缩写,通常是大卫王生活的场景。本文认为,这些爱情主题与邻近的圣经图像相结合,对未经批准的性行为和好色行为的危险做出了尖锐的陈述。他们通过选择圣经事件、对圣经和世俗材料的新图像解释以及各种绘画策略来实现这一点。手稿的创新爱情设计和库存图案(如哥特式象牙和手稿照明)之间的比较,不仅揭示了该书设计师的创造性,而且还揭示了为了特定目的操纵这种视觉传统的意图。这本书的专员和预定读者都不为人所知。这篇文章认为,阿伦德尔伯爵和萨里伯爵身边的一位身份不明的女性可能是为一位年轻人索要这本书的,她与一位多明尼加顾问合作创造了这本书奢华的视觉循环。
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