Sherry C. M. Lindquist
Agency, Visuality and Society at the Chartreuse de Champmol
Aldershot, UK:
Ashgate,
2008.
282 pp.; 12 color ills.; 64 b/w ills.
Cloth
$114.95
(9780754660460)
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The Chartreuse de Champmol is known to students of the fifteenth century as the burial mausoleum of the Valois Burgundian dukes and the location of such famous works as Claus Sluter’s Well of Moses, naturalistic portal sculptures of Margaret of Flanders and Philip the Bold, and Philip the Bold’s tomb with its pleurants. There has been renewed interest in both these individual works and the monument as a whole in the past decade, spurred by...