Realism, Vision and Spirituality: A Study of the Image in Netherlandish Illuminated Prayer Books of the 15th and 16th Centuries

2023 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 19K00200
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Review Section: Basic Section 01060:History of arts-related
• Research Institution: Rikkyo University
• Principal Investigator: Kuroiwa Mie 立教大学, 異文化コミュニケーション学部, 教授 (80422351)
• Project Period (FY): 2019-04-01 – 2024-03-31
• Keywords: 西洋美術史 / 中世美術 / 写本彩飾 / ネーデルラント / ブルゴーニュ公 / 聖体 / 聖バルバラ / 視覚性

Outline of Final Research Achievements

This research project has made the following achievements: We collected data about Netherlandish manuscript illumination of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. Hitherto little-known manuscripts destined for the Duke Philippe the Good and those made at the Rooklooster Priory are among the data. Analyses of the manuscripts, the structure of the artwork/illumination, the use of manuscripts by the reader, and contemporary visual practices have led to interesting hypotheses.
We also researched topics about the relationship between manuscript illumination and the visual, material, or spiritual cultures that it depended on. To cast a new light on the act of "seeing", we researched a visual representation of Transubstantiation of the Host, the Brussels Miraculous Sacrament. We studied the foundation and dissemination of St. Barbara's veneration and iconography, a saint closely related to the dogma of the Trinity and the Host. New findings have led to a wider perspective on the visuality.

Free Research Field

美術史

Academic Significance and Societal Importance of the Research Achievements

ブルゴーニュ公フィリップ善良所有の彩飾写本を中心に、新たな視点、研究方法を用いて考察を行った。ほぼ未研究のバイエルン州立図書館蔵『善良公のいとも小さき祈祷書』が、著名なオランダ国立図書館蔵『善良公の時祷書』と挿絵、テクストともに相当の重複を含み、かつ祈祷文の後補や手指の皮脂汚れの状態から善良公の日常の祈祷行為の痕跡も含む重要な作例であることを解明した。
また、聖体の実体変化の教義が当世の視覚性や視覚文化に与えた影響については、豊富な作例に反して研究が少ない1370年のブリュッセルの聖体冒涜事件とその図像を複合的に分析し、当世の「霊的な視覚性」の実例として提示した。