Abstract
This article investigates the shaping of European visual culture by tracing the international and intermedial trajectory of the visual motive of a chandelier from a 15th-century Burgundian manuscript in the decades around 1800. Passing from Brussels, Paris, Lyon, Mannheim, and Vienna to Coburg, and moving from illumination to drawing, archaeological illustration, painting, engraving to the applied arts, its trajectory exemplifies the historical conditions and cultural phenomena that animated the formation of a European visual culture, at a time when historical and national consciousness were developing on the continent.
Recommended Citation
Deneer, Eveline. "A Light on Europe. The International and Intermedial Trajectory of a Medieval Chandelier at the Turn of the Nineteenth Century." Artl@s Bulletin 12, no. 1 (2023): Article 5.
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