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Circles, circles and more circles
In my previous post, I looked at images of the basse-danse in medieval manuscripts created during the Burgundian era. This post looks at some of the many images of circle dances illustrating secular manuscripts of the Low Countries during the same period. Circle dances have existed since the dawn of civilization; men and women, boys… Read more
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Dance at Court – The Basse-Danse
The court of Philip the Good, Duke of Burgundy is legendary. Not only were the palatial banquets, the stunning tournaments and the great pageants magnificent, but Philip the Good (1396-1467) was also a great patron of art and culture. Under his patronage the arts, including the art of the illuminated manuscript, thrived. The Duke was… Read more
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Chronicles – Le Bal des Ardents (2)
28th of January 1393. Charles VI and five courtiers prepared themselves to perform a bizarre dance, at a feast held in honour of the wedding for one of the queen’s ladies-in-waiting. They appeared, in a then popular disguise, as wild men dressed from head to foot in garments, according to the chronicler Jean Froissart, ‘made… Read more
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Chronicles – Le Bal des Ardents (1)
1393. At a feast held by King Charles VI and Queen Isabeau of Bavaria in honour of the wedding of one of the queen’s ladies-in-waiting, the king together with five courtiers, dressed up as Wild Men to perform a masquerade or, others say, a charivari as part of the court entertainment. Their hairy costumes, which… Read more
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Dance Images in Devotional Manuscripts
Dance images are not the first thing you think about when browsing through a devotional or liturgical manuscript. And yet within these countless illuminated manuscripts, dance and dancers appear from time to time, not only, as I discussed in my previous two blogs, in The Hours of the Virgin, but also in other sections of… Read more
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Book of Hours – Dancing Shepherds
During the Middle-Ages and early Renaissance every person of renown and every person who had any means, possessed a book for personal devotion; a Book of Hours. This, to use a contemporary term, ‘bestseller’ contained a section called The Hours of the Virgin, a set of prayers for each of the canonical hours. It was… Read more
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About me
As a young aspiring dancer I loved to ponder over the magnificent paintings created by Edgar Degas. How his ballerinas inspired me. The atmosphere of the Paris Opera, the beautiful tutus and the hard working dancers never failed to trigger my imagination. As the years past, I retained my love of dance, of Degas, of art, and developed an interest in knowing more about the cross fertilization between art and dance.
DANCE IMAGES IN THE ART OF THE NETHERLANDS 